Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] for the [noun sg] " 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 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |
| 5 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 6 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 7 | I am writing to thank you for the coverage you gave my launch as the No More Pylons candidate ( Echo March 26 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
| 9 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 10 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 11 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 12 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 13 | I 'd like to thank you for the feature Redundancy — Your Survival Guide ( September GH ) . |
| 14 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 15 | And sir , both of you , both you sir , Mr and you sir , Mr , er I would like to thank you for the way in the way you have conducted this enquiry . |
| 16 | I would like to thank you for the interest you have shown in this post . |
| 17 | Let's have a look at how you manage your time at the moment and how you 'd like to reorganize it for the future . |
| 18 | Got to use it for the paint . |
| 19 | Well , he 's going to do something for the programme and I 'm doing something for TSB . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've had enough X-rays for a while , so I 'm going to do nothing for the moment . |
| 21 | Because if we 're going to use it for the ragtime and er |
| 22 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 23 | I would like to commend you for the support you give to rural artists and craftspeople , through your excellent articles — especially at a time when , due to cuts in grants , such people need all the help they can get . |
| 24 | So that you 've got a vague idea of er what 's going to befall you for the rest of today ? |
| 25 | Cos I 've got to finish it for the morning . |
| 26 | A sudden wave of panic swept over her and she glanced at the others but it did n't seem as if she was going to learn anything for the moment . |
| 27 | And at the end of the evening he said , ‘ Give me your number , I 'd like to have it for the future . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home . |
| 29 | ‘ We saved up the £360 needed to register ourselves for the scheme and it took off from there . |
| 30 | Mr Jones did n't have the key ; it was kept at the ambulance station , whose staff would be told to lend it for the purpose required . |