Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | let me read those verses again , he says my flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill , and my flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth , there was no one to search or seek for them . |
| 2 | What you want is a parasite that works for you , not on you , he had said . |
| 3 | And when we were apart and my thoughts were about him , my body absorbed my mind 's obsession and throbbed for him . |
| 4 | Section 1(1) of the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 abolished the death penalty for murder and substituted for it imprisonment for life . |
| 5 | I let silence be my reply and wait for him to continue . |
| 6 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
| 7 | I do like she says , and sit there with the damp towel round my neck and wait for her to come back . |
| 8 | Three years later , he emigrated with his parents to Israel , yet became a frequent commuter to the major musical centres of Europe , where he caught the eye of such musical heavyweights as Edwin Fischer , Wilhelm Furtwangler and ( most especially ) Arthur Rubinstein , who took an immense interest in the young pianist and arranged for him to be represented by his agent , the legendary Sol Hurok . |
| 9 | The parents had n't been offered any sort of advice or counselling ; they had all received a letter from Paul Lee inviting them to come and talk to his department , but no one had offered them any information about their children ; if they wanted that they had to ring up the department and ask for it . |
| 10 | Having a lump of sugar put in your tea and stirred for you . |
| 11 | Edward drew rein and waited for him to catch up — their uncle having ridden back along the line to urge the stragglers to greater effort . |
| 12 | She said oh could have took it down the launderette and dried for you . |
| 13 | The owner says he will sell at that price , but only if Fred collects the car and pays for it within the next 2 hours . |
| 14 | How would the condition that Fred should collect the car and pay for it within 2 hours be treated in law ? |
| 15 | They laid Victor on the floor of their shack and prayed for him , but Victor , realising that nothing could be done just gave up and refused to eat . |
| 16 | That is to say , he was prepared to commission an article for The Criterion and to pay for it in advance . |
| 17 | Mrs Paisley brought a message from her husband in prison , condemning the rioting and asking for it to stop . |
| 18 | I just hang round the entrance and wait for her . |
| 19 | You pick your side and fight for it . |
| 20 | And when you discover a technique that works for you , you will have an effective weapon against stress . |
| 21 | I could not forget my promise to the monster , and the awful work that waited for me . |
| 22 | The work that began for me then , with friends all over South Africa , led up to the Pretoria Conference last Easter , 1974 . |
| 23 | We should give thanks for their work and pray for them . |
| 24 | As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’ |
| 25 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 26 | Reluctantly she lowered her window and waited for him to speak . |
| 27 | Get his name from your customer or phone the reference and ask for it . |
| 28 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 29 | Every morning at Mass he sought her smiling eyes as if she alone understood his loneliness and felt for him . |
| 30 | When she was satisfied with the state of the blaze Laura led me round to the side of the kiln , removed the bung and gestured for me to look in . |