Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a professional photographer — I must pay him for his work ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I must thank you for your kindness — and you too , Mrs Wood . |
| 3 | Yet it is impossible I should love him for his vices all ugly him over . |
| 4 | I 'll reimburse them for their time , of course . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll need it for my missionary work in India , and you could help me to learn it by studying with me . |
| 6 | You get one of the lads that works with me , if he catches three of them he says well I 'll have them for my dinner . |
| 7 | I got them for me , I 'd get them for me daughter but I do n't know if she likes them |
| 8 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 9 | Whether he wins or not , I shall remember him for his fearlessness , for not being content to run like a solitary god between the gunpowder hills of Lanzarote , but for running in the race instead . |
| 10 | Are you afraid I will thank you for your generous gesture towards my mother ? ’ |
| 11 | He cemented this election by committing himself to the Israelite nation with the words , " I will take you for my people , and I will be your God " ( Exodus 6:7 ) . |
| 12 | So Mt Sinai stands for the fulfilment of one half of the covenant promise of Exodus 6:7 : " I will take you for my people " . |
| 13 | Q I have some very thick hand knitting yarn and want to know if there is any way I can utilise it for my standard gauge machine ? |
| 14 | The cheapest I can buy them for my dinner is £2.50 per half hundredweight bag . |
| 15 | On this pinnacle of enthusiasm , with promises to meet later for dinner , or tea , or supper , and do not forget our daughter and our boat of course you must use it for your fishing and good day , Colonel Hope , good day — the hills are called fells by the natives … |
| 16 | ‘ Martin , ’ she said , almost urbanely , ‘ you must forgive us for our daughter . |
| 17 | I thought you might use it for your files . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If I say one of my contacts tipped me off , I expect you 'll pester me for his name . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll need them for your programming . |
| 20 | At least , she could understand him for her uncle , later to be the 6th Duke , was deaf as well . |
| 21 | He would marry another heiress , she knew that quite well , almost certainly one who would take him for his title , regardless of his character and conduct . |
| 22 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |
| 23 | You can adapt it for your own taste but keep the pointers in mind . |
| 24 | Well , you can save it for your dad if you do n't like it . |
| 25 | yeah , you can have it for your dinner with some , with your barm cakes ca n't you ? |
| 26 | As you work through the second phase you will be working out the diet that is as near to perfect as you can get it for your own body . |
| 27 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 28 | ‘ That is what he wanted us all to think , including the Men , ’ said Minch , ‘ and we should honour him for his cunning and intelligence . |
| 29 | I nodded in agreement , saying : ‘ We 'll keep it for our New Year 's present . ’ |
| 30 | When I go up to the farm to get Mummy 's eggs , I 'll ask if we could use it for our meetings and … ’ |