Example sentences of "[to-vb] you for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , ‘ I 've got to summons you for driving amongst children . ’ |
| 2 | There seems no point in saying that I love you in spite of everything because that only seems to irritate you for reasons best known to yourself and which you choose neither to explain nor comment on . |
| 3 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 5 | Wanted to meet you for years . |
| 6 | ‘ I have wanted to meet you for such a long time , ’ she began hesitantly . |
| 7 | MR IAN ROWDON OF HALCROW WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU FOR AN INFORMAL CHAT/INTRODUCTION . |
| 8 | He offered me ten-thousand dollars to find you for him . |
| 9 | I 've been trying to find you for ages . ’ |
| 10 | And , if you 're travelling solo , no one 's going to compensate you for having to change your plans at the last minute . |
| 11 | NAME Solicitors have been instructed to act for you in claiming damages to compensate you for your injury . |
| 12 | If we can establish that your injury was caused by another 's fault then we can usually recover damages to compensate you for the effects of the injury and for any financial loss . |
| 13 | An important element of any compensation payment is the damages intended to compensate you for the injury itself , and the effect it has on you and your lifestyle , both today and in the future . |
| 14 | ‘ The money is a bona fide payment in thanks for your co-operation and to compensate you for the upheaval . |
| 15 | ‘ Not even a bona fide payment in thanks for your co-operation and to compensate you for any upheaval ? ’ |
| 16 | Schooling was to train you for some largely predetermined end , whether it was a middle or a working-class one , not to equip you with the flexible , self-determining wherewithal for an open-ended future . |
| 17 | You can do that … no need to train you for that . ’ |
| 18 | Fill each one with Your Holy Spirit , O Saviour , that their teaching and life may lead others to know You for themselves . |
| 19 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 20 | Scorpios are intensely possessive and jealous individuals , and whether you like it or not , your Adam Burns has decided to claim you for his own . ’ |
| 21 | Were we so I should have been happy to kill you for speaking so of my daughter . |
| 22 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 23 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ So I wo n't be able to see you for those two weeks . |
| 26 | MR GEOFF WELCH PHONED ( 4.00PM ) HE IS COMING UP TO EDINBURGH NEXT WEEK AND WAS WONDERING IF HE COULD ARRANGE TO SEE YOU FOR HOUR . |
| 27 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 28 | ‘ What does he want to interview you for ? ! ’ |
| 29 | Paul reminded Timothy " how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus " . |
| 30 | ‘ On behalf of the family of my late brother , Robert , I wish to thank you for the compassion and care shown to him by your organization during his long and difficult illness . |