Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 2 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 3 | ‘ I only stole it for the wire , ’ she said , ‘ but now we 've got it I suppose we might as well drink it . ’ |
| 4 | No I really got it for the er card holder . |
| 5 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 6 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 7 | Even Dole , who once challenged him for the Presidency , was on verge of tears . |
| 8 | He might be the key to her freedom , but she still hated him for the confusion he aroused in her . |
| 9 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 10 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 11 | Lucinda accepted her mother 's need for a Bainbridge heir and she understood her feelings of guilt , too , even though no one ever blamed her for the accident . |
| 12 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 13 | It would appear from investigations that this government in nineteen eighty four did a deal with the E E C to close down shipyards in future years , for which they received millions of pounds from E E C funds , and they never used them for the purposes they were supposed to be used for . |
| 14 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |
| 15 | The chairman said : ‘ He was a shelf stacker at Tescos and said it fully qualified him for the job ! ’ |
| 16 | Jason tells me you 've often made careless mistakes in your work , and that you 've always resented him correcting you , ’ Mike enquired , and Kate knew from the way he spoke that he too blamed her for the trouble . |