Example sentences of "of [pers pn] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 2 | He listens , he listens to it afterwards and he goes no I ca n't understand , well now I can , now I can understand why they take the piss out of me for my voice . |
| 3 | the way Jimmy goes , Jimmy goes understand why you always take the piss out of me for my voice |
| 4 | After about twenty minutes I got up and prepared to leave , thanking both of them for their hospitality . |
| 5 | Each of them for their own private reason needed to live with death at their shoulder . |
| 6 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 7 | It was the scarcity of Indian appointments , coveted by so many applicants , which gave such great influence to those politicians able to produce some of them for their friends . |
| 8 | Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of them for their first grading exam . |
| 9 | They had always written off their mother 's manoeuvres as tribal tactics devised to keep the two of them for her kind , with their father as some sort of lower ally in the endeavour , more deeply absorbed by his autonomy and his cigars than by the dynamics of living with his wife . |
| 10 | At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties . |
| 11 | I only wanted to tell you I 'm really interested in the Foundling babies and I hope to visit some of them for my husband . |
| 12 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 13 | On my life , I ordered one of them for my friend 's daughter for her birthday and it was ten pounds that 's two ninety nine . |
| 14 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 15 | Quite apart from Faber business , he had to settle down and write prefaces for three books as well ( one of them for his own selection of Pounds literary essays ) . |
| 16 | If your diary or notebook does not have these , or does not contain enough of them for your needs , buy a small packet of graph paper as well . |
| 17 | I hope you 'll like some of them for your own nearest and dearest . |
| 18 | Let's start off with all of them for your worksheet status , to see the memory . |
| 19 | Should of got one of them for your granddad . |
| 20 | Dad you gon na open one of them for your birthday ? |
| 21 | My thanks go to each and every one of you for your contribution to our success . |
| 22 | I must take this opportunity to say a personal thank you to each and everyone of you for your kind support and all the good wishes that I have received during the past six months . |
| 23 | I should think of you for his finger . |
| 24 | And we are delighted that she is marrying Steven , who is so loved/admired by his family and close friends and is respected by all of us for his hard work/talents/skills/ zest for life . |