Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for my ham-and-tomato sandwich . |
| 2 | Berenice has high blood-pressure ; she has to remain in hospital because of stress , or she will miscarry , and if that happens I fear for her mental health . ’ |
| 3 | I long for his unwashed eyes . |
| 4 | And I long for your gentle touch , |
| 5 | This is my son and I apologise for his bad manners . |
| 6 | ‘ I played for my junior school in Barnsley then progressed through the various Yorkshire representative teams . |
| 7 | Even afterwards , when I was a teenager , I paid for my bad timing , coming just too early to enjoy the fun and freedom that waited round the corner . |
| 8 | Others I like for their sheer messiness . |
| 9 | The sureness with which I carry out all motions on this return journey , the knowledge that is part of the recognition , overwhelmingly convinces me , in the dream and on waking , that I have often , often been there , although , as you know , I never lived in the country as a child , and all the lore that I needed for my little articles on Nature was garnered later from various sources . |
| 10 | How could I dictate to some amanuensis all the love I feel for my darling Lily , the loveliest flower … . |
| 11 | I enjoy nature and long country walks , and I cheer-lead for my local basketball team . |
| 12 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 13 | ‘ I told you : I went for my usual run . |
| 14 | ‘ So when I went for my regular eye check-up I had no idea that anything was wrong . |
| 15 | It was only when I went for my yearly check-up that I was told I had endometriosis . |
| 16 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 17 | I call for his immediate resignation and the transfer of power to a collective body , the Council of the Federation … |
| 18 | I voted for my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay in 1983 in Battersea . |
| 19 | In my diary I recognised it almost from the beginning , probably because I made no connection between it and non-eating , but seemed to have ascribed it to being overworked academically or being hounded into sporting activities which I resented for their profound pointlessness . |
| 20 | Strangely , for a man fighting for sport 's most brutal crown , Bowe finds himself apologising for his obvious lack of aggression in the countdown to his day of destiny . |
| 21 | There was also an urgency to protect and preserve while it was still possible to do so : the countryside was in change and this seemed to invigorate the various lobbies which fought for their special interest : flora , fauna , landscape , outdoor recreation and protection from development . |
| 22 | Of all the European ducks , the mallard 's breeding season lasts the longest — which accounts for its undoubted success as a species . |
| 23 | However , the actual reproduction or modernist form over the last century and a half has revealed exactly the opposite tendency , since objects formed entirely on the basis of utility have proved singularly unattractive ( which accounts for their general absence from commercial marketing ) . |
| 24 | Jeremy is a maths teacher and Sheila , who now runs the business , was once a history teacher which accounts for her detailed knowledge of the area — a great help to any visitor . |
| 25 | Heavily in debt to certain members of his nobility and to routier captains , and let down by his Castilian ally , he had had to seek the financial resources with which to pay for his Spanish expedition . |
| 26 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 27 | Go and look for some of your friends , the Stewpot fan club , and ask them to play for your precious team . |
| 28 | A wife 's vivid account of how she cared for her declining husband . |
| 29 | It was I who cared for her murdered child through his last days . ’ |
| 30 | Their only appeal to Clara lay in their austerity , which sometimes reached a point where it bordered on the dangerously extreme ; there was one sad tale , for instance , of a little girl who cared for her cruel stepmother with unfailing devotion , and who died of pneumonia after running out in her nightgown to look for her stepmother 's cat . |