Example sentences of "[verb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver pretended to apologize for her . |
| 2 | Quite as remarkable as the original display of ill temper was the graciousness which prompted him to apologize for it . |
| 3 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 4 | Whatever she [ mother ] needs , it 's there regardless … if her money did n't amount to whatever she needed , she would get it , even if I had to borrow for it , she would get it from somewhere . |
| 5 | It was asked , when the estate had been entered in accordance with the second will , whether the debtors who had been released in the first will could secure that they should be released even from debt which they had begun to owe after the first will , and if , should the heirs try to sue for it , they could be debarred by a defence of bad faith . |
| 6 | Even if she could be brought to view his actions in his own light , he would remain for her the instrument of death . |
| 7 | Hate for you , my creator , who had made me . |
| 8 | So lavish there , she 'd none to spare for me ? |
| 9 | Since the thrice-weekly visit of the ferry brought all the island 's mail and supplies , and the post office was very small , the place was crowded , and the postmistress , busily sorting through a pile of mail and newspapers , while exchanging two days ' news in Gaelic with the ferry 's master , had no glance to spare for me . |
| 10 | Do n't think that because I 'm learning an absorbing and rather difficult trade I have no thoughts to spare for you . |
| 11 | Speed of response can be set over a range of five steps , and may well have to be reset because , particularly in graphics mode , if it is too sensitive , loading up several movement commands into the buffer will require having to wait for them to clear . |
| 12 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 13 | Westmacott then saw two ‘ red noses ’ coming up and thought they were from his own flight , as he called his pilots to rendezvous over Takali , going down through cloud to wait for them . |
| 14 | They had a long walk over the moor to Bingley and Alfred Carter could n't afford to wait for them if they were late . |
| 15 | Jesus took Peter , James and John into the garden , the rest of the disciples having been told to wait for them . |
| 16 | I told Morag ( Mrs McDougall was busy over the tide tables with Ann and Megan ) then went out to wait for them . |
| 17 | ‘ True , but we need a second Geiger counter and there is n't time to wait for them to send us another one . ’ |
| 18 | He dusted off a box and sat down to wait for them . |
| 19 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 20 | To wait for them . ’ |
| 21 | But the processing capability is in itself , no matter how good the program , only half the benefit ; the other half is derived from being able to get the answers when they are wanted and not have to wait for them . |
| 22 | We going to wait for them . ’ |
| 23 | He could afford to wait for them now , if he wanted . |
| 24 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 25 | Are all children and me , and adults who have been baptised members of the church ? is not or you 'll be actually encouraged or pressured to misinterpret the membership or should we wait for them to be informed er er , to wait for them to , to feel the ? |
| 26 | Because we 've had to wait for them |
| 27 | Oh , I do n't know whether you need a brace or not , open , Michael do n't know what they are Stacey you 'll have to wait for them to grow properly , open |
| 28 | He 's had to wait for them to come . |
| 29 | He declines and asks whether I want him to wait for me . |
| 30 | I was passing over a hill when Idris drove past me , hooting , and pointing to the valley where he was obviously going to wait for me . |