Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 2 | We have kept this fish in the office brackish tank for a number of years without breeding success , and Derek has undertaken to find out how to breed them and write it up for PFK . |
| 3 | But like that A lot of families had them and kept them just for the family . |
| 4 | Edinburgh University , they 'll take copies of them and keep them there for ever as a sort of reference museum . |
| 5 | For him it would simply have been a matter of bringing the girl along , telling my mother she was coming with them and paying her handsomely for the hardship occasioned . ’ |
| 6 | But now I really can not justify repacking them and squirrelling them away for another 40 years . |
| 7 | Your father pays you and pays you well for your work . |
| 8 | I was saying , who 's the one that had you over for the barbecue ? |
| 9 | The frizzy-rugged beaner at the wheel shouted something and threw himself around for a while , but I kept on not not smoking quietly in the back , and nothing happened . |
| 10 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 11 | Burton was so elated at his tough bargaining that he took a rare taxi back to Pelham Crescent , where he met his neighbour , Emlyn Williams , who winkled the details out of him and sent him back for £30 . |
| 12 | Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake . |
| 13 | I 'll get him and put him in for you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I can only imagine someone has jumped out on her and dragged her away for some reason . |
| 15 | He decided then and there to take the carrion off her and have it back for himself and so leaned out into the void and tilted into the wind towards her far below . |
| 16 | My colleague saw it and cut it out for me . |
| 17 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 18 | Then he capped his own little finger with it and held it up for them both to see . |
| 19 | The judge may ask open , vague questions , affording the interviewee plenty of rope to hang himself or herself ; for instance , ‘ Tell me all about yourself ’ , which means , of course , ‘ Tell me specific information about yourself that makes you right for this job . ’ |
| 20 | Be imitators of God , therefore , as dearly loved children , and live a life of love , just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God ( Eph. 4:3–5:2 ) . |