Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel . |
| 2 | I spoke to myself and I did n't listen : meaningless words on deaf ears , although they were true , and whoever I was meant them , and whoever I was speaking to knew them for the truth . |
| 3 | Its efficacy could then be assessed by substituting it for the dictionary definitions in the overlap program . |
| 4 | There may in fact be some differences in these time intervals and in other pathogenetic factors between Kock pouches and pelvic pouches , but in view of the general clinical similarities between the RP syndromes in these two forms of pouch ( Table V ) , we have felt justified in combining them for the purposes of our analysis . |
| 5 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 6 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 7 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 8 | They 've economised by reducing it for the handout . |
| 9 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |