Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people I know have used them for departmental budgets , but quite how they do that I do n't know . |
| 2 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 3 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 5 | " I 've come to ask you for money , my lord . |
| 6 | I 've refused to do them for Notts County Council on occasions . |
| 7 | Cos I 've got to finish it for the morning . |
| 8 | ‘ If I do it for you , I 've got to do it for everyone … |
| 9 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 10 | I said , ‘ I 've got to summons you for driving amongst children . ’ |
| 11 | Also I 've got to get something for the boys ' dinner first … |
| 12 | And not only that , I 'll tell you what I 've longed to tell you for some time , that I think you 're a fool for not having responded to it , for not having done something about it before now . |
| 13 | ‘ I have wanted to meet you for such a long time , ’ she began hesitantly . |
| 14 | I have tried to translate them for you . |
| 15 | So I intended to try flying her for the assembly , and carefully got her down to her flying weight . |
| 16 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |
| 17 | As a matter of fact , I rarely do , but she has begun to take it for granted . |
| 18 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 19 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 20 | Gloria had told her she 'd got to keep it for ever . |
| 21 | That , that you 've got to create it for them . |
| 22 | There 's a little old rhyme about sowing crops which accepts that you ca n't expect the maximum potential from a crop every time — you 've got to allow something for the other occupants of the land and it goes : |
| 23 | Not just for yourself , you 've got to do it for the rest . |
| 24 | I said , he said I ca n't do it , you 've got to do it for me ! |
| 25 | And you 've got to admire her for not collapsing . ’ |
| 26 | Would n't recommend masses into it , but because it 's no income potential , and it 's not that flexible , you 've got to keep it for five years to make it really work . |
| 27 | Which means you 've got to make it for about twelve or fourteen . |
| 28 | I think it , you 've got to have one for a change . |
| 29 | You 've got to have someone for that as well , you know ! |
| 30 | She had vowed to honour him for better or for worse , just as he must honour her in sickness as he did in health . |