Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [verb] [pron] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 4 | I do admire her for that . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 7 | I 've made one for each of you , of course . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 12 | Because no told me , because like I 've known her for all my life . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've known you for some years now . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I have to thank him for that . |
| 17 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ People who try to screw you for that extra ten pence , ’ John offers . |
| 20 | If I go , If I could just to , to bring go , right back to a point you made much earlier coming off is exactly as you 've described it for most people |
| 21 | You 've set it for that rough track . ’ |
| 22 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 23 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , we 've had it for several weeks now . ’ |
| 25 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 26 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |
| 27 | However , suppose we have proved it for all finite P , Q , R. ( We will shortly do this . ) |
| 28 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 29 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 30 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |