Example sentences of "[verb] for [det] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life .
2 In our study a sample of newspapers was examined for all their stories about rape and sexual crime more generally .
3 Combining elements from his childhood reading with his reading about recent political thought and events , Eliot shows the man-child who has not evolved a cry , and so for whom ‘ the lost word is lost ’ , as trapped in a corner , paralysed for all his magnificence and that of his City .
4 The advantage of this approach would be that it would enable a mixed economy to be operated i.e. some institutions be validated in the present way ; , others who were ‘ chartered ’ would not necessarily be accredited for all their courses in that their courses would be validated in the present ways .
5 They were not eligible for free hospital treatment for any other purpose — an evasion of the problem that fifteen million insured people , if actually treated for all their needs , would have overwhelmed the hotch-potch of voluntary and Poor Law hospitals .
6 rose to thank for all his work for the fellows .
7 We now know that the same goes for all our particles of inheritance .
8 I was n't deceived , for Nour had been kind when I had been what he called ‘ good ’ , and I had thought that a new Nour had been born who was made for me , designed for all my needs and desires , and we would be unchangingly happy together until the end of time .
9 ‘ Now , ’ she said steadily , ‘ I suggest for both our sakes we forget what happened here just now .
10 However , to the CNAA 's surprise , a number of institutions has indicated that they wish to take advantage of the new procedures by proposing special arrangements which would , in effect , provide for all their courses to be validated by a method other than the normal one .
11 I long for all my people their lives to humbly search .
12 He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits .
13 My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle .
14 The simple form of this argument is that new technology is so enormously labour-saving that we will never again need full employment to provide for all our needs .
15 The conference : ‘ A place for all our children'
16 The findings were documented in a report A Place For All Our Children ( CCUF 1983 ) and an analysis was prepared of the practical and bureaucratic problems in gaining an ordinary childcare place for a child with special needs , with suggestions for how these might be overcome .
17 At the end of 1987 , three years after the conference ‘ A place For All Our Children ’ , one council day centre offered a place to a child with a ‘ learning difficulty ’ .
18 In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ?
19 Sometimes this means taking a very definite stand on certain issues , but it has to be done for both your sakes .
20 I hope for all our sakes it is . ’
21 During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus .
22 No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life .
23 And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’
24 The answer is that by furthering the interests of the banks themselves , the Institute increases support for all its activities and thereby benefits individual members .
25 When he gets home he will sit down and weep for all his hopes and plans and dreams .
26 We 're paying for all his postage !
27 They will want to be sure that you are prepared to give your time to care for the children , that you will provide for all their needs and take them out regularly , and that you really do like small children !
28 This view left room for considerable differences of opinion as to the means by which the labouring poor should be encouraged to work — by coercion or persuasion ; as to the degree to which those who worked could provide for all their needs , such as their children 's education , housing , sickness , old age , widowhood , or required support from the state in some or all of these circumstances ; and as to the degree of culpability of those who did not provide for themselves .
29 Ann Ridler joined the CNAA in 1969 as an assistant to Jean Rossiter , Senior Assistant Registrar for Arts and Social Studies , and became Assistant Registrar ( the first appointment with that title in the CNAA ) in that area in 1971 , and Senior Assistant Registrar in 1973 — a title commuted for all its holders to Registrar in 1976 .
30 It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr .
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