Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I said , or perhaps one of my voices said it for me , " I do n't know . |
| 2 | He says they stopped selling replica handguns because he suspected that some of his customers wanted them for possible criminal reasons . |
| 3 | The deference of his courtiers did nothing for this — that was a piece from a different jigsaw puzzle he had already solved . |
| 4 | Jim Haywood , of Sandwell council 's environmental health department , said : ‘ The tortoises looked so lifelike that one of our officers bought one for his garden . ’ |
| 5 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 6 | he was merely pandering to his feelings did nothing for the children he left behind . |
| 7 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |