Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when Jane asked him for a loan , he snapped back : ‘ I think my first duty is to look after myself ! ’ |
| 2 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 3 | He began to put on airs and think he was a grown-up who could boss us around until Dad checked him for it . |
| 4 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 5 | But even though Lewis used him for target practice with heavy right crosses and upper-cuts , he could not floor the durable American , who took a standing eight count early in the fourth round . |
| 6 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 7 | It should be collected primarily because government needs it for its own businesses . ’ |
| 8 | And yet when folk got it for their arthritis , okay ? |