Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 2 | Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food . |
| 3 | Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’ |
| 4 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 5 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 6 | Ooh right , okay , well there 'll be another one going out to you for the , I think the Saturday night er hotel |
| 7 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 8 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 9 | You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one . |
| 10 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |