Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 3 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 6 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 7 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 8 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 9 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 10 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 11 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 12 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 13 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 14 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 15 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 16 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 17 | Kessler , known for his ingeniously mechanised and electrified constructions , this month ups the ante with a piece called ‘ Music Box ’ which has got something for the ears as well as for the eyes . |
| 18 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 19 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 20 | I 'm the sort of person who wants to do everything for the people I love and he is the sort of person who 's self-sufficient , or seems to be … = ’ she paused . |
| 21 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 22 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 23 | you certainly do need to keep them for a while . |
| 24 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 25 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 26 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 27 | The signing of Byrne is exciting … he gets goals … has scored them for a list of clubs … |
| 28 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 29 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 30 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |