Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning in the 1860s , Degas made small wax statuettes of horses and female figures , keeping them in his studio and occasionally using them as models for his two-dimensional work . |
| 2 | Black kids look to them as blueprints for their own development . |
| 3 | Why do n't you get them for school for him ? |
| 4 | And they say right Mr we caution you for er what ever you done next time you do it we 'll take you for court for it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm very sorry I ca n't oblige you with cigarettes for her , sir . |
| 6 | If I make a promise to you in return for your supplying me with three , quite useless , chocolate wrappers , which I will instantly throw away , there is a perfectly good contract provided that the promise was seriously intended ( below , p. 205 ) . |
| 7 | A service bus , number 58 , will get you to Gosling for our last away match of the season . |
| 8 | Any maternity certificate such as MAT B1 given to you by employees for whom you paid SMP . |
| 9 | Now I see that I know nothing , only I must not say so for I should lose the good opinion of my neighbours and they would no longer trust me with money for my experiments . |
| 10 | Will you join me with acclaim for our President . |
| 11 | Mrs Goreng had the ideas ; I put them into practice for her . |
| 12 | De Valois , Ashton and MacMillan have studied paintings and drawings by English artists and/or the words of such great playwrights as Shakespeare and translated them into gestures for which the dancer 's whole body has to play a part . |
| 13 | We then sprayed them with water for our picture and the instant transformation showed just how very good they 'd look in the right setting . |
| 14 | This means sacrificing the crate of export and the three pounds of reheatable madras curry in a Tupperware box , and replacing them with objects for your more immediate use , like the tent . |
| 15 | The child can have his football boots because the words ‘ we ca n't afford it ’ will be linked to the long-gone and not-lamented past : the tyrant can not control against the will of the subject because he can not frighten his people with notions of helplessness and poverty : the employer will have to charm and wheedle his workers if he wants them to work for him : he will have to sing and dance to entertain them : enthuse them with pleasure for their daily toil : they will be paid with the world 's respect , and all around them there will be abundance . |
| 16 | I resent you for engineering it and I resent you for what you think you can do to me in revenge for our affair last year . ’ |
| 17 | I have mentioned Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian and the most charming of scholars , who was of great assistance to me in researches for my naval documentaries and books . |
| 18 | But , alternatively , assuming that this was not so , and that the instrument did not cease to be a negotiable instrument , then , in my judgment , from the moment when the draft sent by Sir Richard Temple was cashed by the plaintiffs a trust was created as between Sir Richard Temple and the moneylenders in favour of the former , so that any money which the latter might receive upon the promissory note , if they did receive any , would be held by them in trust for him . … |
| 19 | But in theory you could do posters here at Mansfield and you could send out , we could print them in colour for you |
| 20 | Put them in order for me |
| 21 | ’ Thus if the goods require anything to be done to them in order for them to be ready for delivery or in order to make them comply with the contract , they will not be in a deliverable state . |
| 22 | You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’ |
| 23 | But women living in nearby Wootton-Under-Edge in Gloucestershire say such prison freedoms put them in fear for their lives |
| 24 | After the 1963 Walker Cup , Michael Bonallack and Joe Carr wrote a letter to Jack Nicklaus nominating me to caddie for him at Lytham . |
| 25 | The following week the US Tour moved to Los Angeles for the LA Open , and Frank asked me to caddie for him there . |
| 26 | He asked me to caddie for him for the rest of the year . |
| 27 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 28 | No , we had these two meetings ago , but I bring it with me on meetings for anyone who 's . |
| 29 | Cos I got them out and I thought I must take them downstairs and give them to Maggie for her to give them to Gary . |
| 30 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |