Example sentences of "from [noun] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Shetlanders expressed concern about land being considered not as a resource for production , but as a resource to be treated simply as a kind of nonagricultural commodity i.e. something to be surrendered up from agriculture merely for money . |
| 2 | They had all come from Bangor together for the game . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not going to spend big money bringing players over from Scotland simply for them to go through the motions . ’ |
| 4 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 5 | Examples include odour and taste discrimination , with important effects on the evolution of language and cuisine ; preference from infancy onward for certain basic geometric designs over others ; phoneme formation ; rules of transformational grammar ; the development of particular , species-wide facial expressions to denote the emotions of fear , loathing , anger , surprise , and happiness ; various other forms of nonverbal communication ; the pattern of mother-infant bonding ; the method of infant holding by women ; fear of strangers ( a usually strong response that persists from about six to eighteen months ) ; phobias ; and others ( see the review by Lumsden & Wilson , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Both raw materials and finished products were all in bags — we unloaded the raw materials up until midnight then re-loaded the lorries from midnight onwards for the drivers to deliver the next day . |
| 7 | But unlike their aquarium counterparts , they are far from man enough for most jobs . |
| 8 | At the end of the match Comte Ghislain de Vogüé of Moët et Chandon , who had come over from France especially for the match and the luncheon that preceded it ; and Viscountess Marchwood , wife of the managing director of Moët et Chandon UK , presented the Moët et Chandon prizes , and Miss Liz Kershaw the publisher of Harpers & Queen presented the Harpers & Queen trophy . |
| 9 | On arrival at the Salters ' Hall the guests , many of whom had travelled by bus from Shropshire especially for the occasion , were greeted by Sir Peter and Lady Gadsden and Mr and Mrs Alan Henn before everyone went in to dinner . |
| 10 | I 've already had one telling-off from Dad today for drinking Scotch . |
| 11 | ‘ Taylors have a certain amount of stock but she will be bringing extra samples from London especially for the show . |
| 12 | She tells Karen that Victor is being excluded from school indefinitely for bullying and for kicking Joan . |
| 13 | Rods are sometimes available on the lower river , where Rockpool , half a mile from the sea , is open to the public for sea-trout in April , and from June onwards for salmon . |