Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 5 | I want to commend you for the excellent job you have done on the Missing Girl story , from the time it broke until her body was found . |
| 6 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 7 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 8 | done it , she said I was reading it here and I meant to ask you for the , she said , anyway when he come back I said have you found them out , alright , he said I 've had a go he said |
| 9 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 10 | erm I ca n't hear for Dorothy 's car , what did you say ? is he going I think I 'd better I said thank you for the cake |
| 11 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 12 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 13 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 14 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 15 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 16 | Mm Dave Allen 's on that as well the only bit , I think I 've set it for the Beast Master ai n't I ? |
| 17 | I 'm not having one I 've had mine for the month . |
| 18 | I 've got ours for the so that 's one fifty two and how much are these ? |
| 19 | ‘ On behalf of the family of my late brother , Robert , I wish to thank you for the compassion and care shown to him by your organization during his long and difficult illness . |
| 20 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 21 | ‘ I have forgiven you for the same ! ’ |
| 22 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
| 23 | I wanted to thank you for the wonderful pair of walking boots — a prize from the February issue of Outdoor Action . |
| 24 | Kessler , known for his ingeniously mechanised and electrified constructions , this month ups the ante with a piece called ‘ Music Box ’ which has got something for the ears as well as for the eyes . |
| 25 | However , the NFU and the SLF said their members were seriously concerned at the lack of a requirement for water authorities to seek a way-leave , particularly if the industry is privatised and any work carried out on private land would result in increased profits for the water company without its having to pay anything for the rights to gain access . |
| 26 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 27 | After this she ceased to blame herself for the breakdown of their marriage , but instead expressed considerable anger towards her husband . |
| 28 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 29 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 30 | I 'm the sort of person who wants to do everything for the people I love and he is the sort of person who 's self-sufficient , or seems to be … = ’ she paused . |