Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 2 | Having read both books for the first time , I really enjoyed them , but once I read them for the second time , I saw how little there really was to them . |
| 3 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 4 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 5 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 6 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 7 | I use it for a wide sleeve gathered in at the bottom and I have knitted the main part of the garment with a 2x1 welt . |
| 8 | I respect them for the medieval certainty of their beliefs and for the casuistical cunning of their arguments . |
| 9 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 10 | ‘ Signorina , will you be all right if I leave you for a little while ? ’ |
| 11 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 12 | I thank him for a speedy and compassionate response . |
| 13 | No I 'm not , erm if I , if I take her for a long run . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , like , ten minutes ago , because I need it for the next programme . ’ |
| 15 | This majestic sight , glimpsed through undulating woldland patchwork , or from the flatter marshland , entices all strangers who behold it for the first time to come and investigate the town further ; to discover its rich history and its modern enchantment . |
| 16 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 17 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 18 | COMIC Rowan Atkinson is anything but funny in real life and is convinced people who meet him for the first time think he is a disappointment . |
| 19 | ‘ If you invite someone , you invite them for the whole day . ’ |
| 20 | Two there 's the one with Judith and I and then you join us for the last session . |
| 21 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 22 | It is the kind of rapid , critical examination to which we expose another person when we encounter them for the first time . |
| 23 | My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 ! |
| 24 | No matter how worthwhile a project seems we attack it for the hidden and sinister purposes behind it . |
| 25 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 26 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
| 27 | ‘ Then what happens is , we take him for a little ride out to the Crumbles . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 29 | ‘ We do n't want to rush Mick because it 's a long season and we need him for the long haul . |
| 30 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |