Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
| 2 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 5 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 7 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 8 | I do admire her for that . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone did ask us for some nude photos as well , ’ frowns Sam , desperately , ‘ But I reckon that was just people trying it on more than anything else . ’ |
| 10 | When I said thank you for that . |
| 11 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 12 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 13 | I 've made one for each of you , of course . ’ |
| 14 | I certainly would not like to do without my own sound card now that I 've had one for some time , and I 'm seriously considering changing it for a Laserwave Plus , purely because I find its configurability and standard of sound to be better than the one I already have . |
| 15 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 16 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 17 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 18 | Because no told me , because like I 've known her for all my life . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've known you for some years now . |
| 20 | DESPAIRING factory owner Michael Whitehead looked back on 18 years of ‘ bloody hard work ’ last night and said : ‘ I 've got nothing for all my graft . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I bleedin' owe you for that one , ’ he growled at Joe . |
| 22 | As a church architect , I have visited , I believe , all the cathedrals in Europe — Chartres , Burgos , Canterbury , Cologne , Saragossa , Milano , Ely , Zagreb , Gozo , Rheims — ’ I continued to name them for some while as we tramped down the nave . |
| 23 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
| 24 | I have to thank him for that . |
| 25 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 26 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 27 | The £6 million Juventus player has finally been forced to accept that the cartilage damage which has troubled him for several weeks requires surgery . |
| 28 | It is a truism to say that nobody likes paying anything for any service . |
| 29 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 30 | HELENA Bonham-Carter , the actress , was yesterday granted a High Court injunction in London against a fan who has pestered her for several years . |