Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 3 | A GRATEFUL reader who would like to thank her daughter for the surprise of a lifetime has nominated her for this week 's bouquet . |
| 4 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 7 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 8 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 9 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 10 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 12 | How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’ |
| 13 | Now , where did you say you were going to take me for that drink ? ’ |
| 14 | In addition , the learning steps a student must follow to prepare himself for each test are specified . |
| 15 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 16 | Bob Hoover 's North American P-51D Old Yeller was put up for action , but with a $1 million reserve Hoover gets to fly it for another year . |
| 17 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 18 | I would n't have seen you for another hour . |
| 19 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 20 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 21 | I knew I should n't have taken you for that coffee . ’ |
| 22 | I had an apartment on the third floor , overlooking the square and the end of the Avenida Jose Antonio de Rivera round which I would watch Dana coming to join me for another afternoon of poetry . |
| 23 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 24 | St Matthew 's seems to suit her for some reason . |
| 25 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 26 | Dave breathed a sigh of relief but realised that he would have to prepare himself for another day . |
| 27 | And not only that , I 'll tell you what I 've longed to tell you for some time , that I think you 're a fool for not having responded to it , for not having done something about it before now . |
| 28 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 29 | Now they have aerial wires attached to the masts and they made me think they must intend to use her for some sort of electronic surveillance . |
| 30 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |