Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I wanted to thank you for the wonderful pair of walking boots — a prize from the February issue of Outdoor Action . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 12 | As she did so she seemed to notice me for the first time . |
| 13 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 14 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 15 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 16 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 17 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 18 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 19 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 20 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 21 | No I think it was the rose fertiliser , they said use it for the tomatoes as well . |
| 22 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 23 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 24 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 25 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 26 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 27 | If he did not initially envisage independence for black Africa , it is difficult to believe that he did envisage it for the départements of French Algeria . |
| 28 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 29 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 30 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |