Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] you for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You , shut up , ’ Blanche cut in firmly , ‘ or I 'll arrest you for wasting police time by giving us a false alibi . ’ |
| 2 | I thought we could have lunch in the garden after your inspection — I 've already arranged for the fridge to be restocked — and afterwards , if you do n't fancy going to the beach , we could go out in my boat , or I 'll take you for a tour of North Zealand , through the quaint old villages with their farmhouses and gardens full of hollyhocks and the beech woods . |
| 3 | I swear before God that I 'll expose you for what you are : a four times murderess . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I doubt that I 'll disturb you for much longer . ’ |
| 5 | I think , therefore , that I must ask you for a ruling . |
| 6 | And anything that I can do you for three four three four three four to ring . |
| 7 | so the maximum that we can cover you for is seventy percent of your annual salary . |
| 8 | Hang about ‘ til 8pm and I 'll eat you for supper ’ . |
| 9 | Jacko appeals to the meeting to endorse Gomez 's nomination for promotion and not to practise a de facto colour bar : ‘ You 're going to cut your own bloody throats and I 'll tell you for why . |
| 10 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 11 | ‘ Let me help you to put your shoe back on , ’ he said gently , ‘ and I must thank you for coming to my rescue . |
| 12 | ‘ And I must thank you for consenting to see me . |
| 13 | We will stop there on the way and I will leave you for a while to pay your respects . ’ |
| 14 | I put in two gallons on Saturday , and I can tell you for a fact there 's at least quarter of a gallon left . |
| 15 | " I shall have to take you back with me to Vienna , dear Tilda , yes , I 'm sorry , I sha n't be able to manage without you , fortunately you 're so small they wo n't miss you here and I can take you for a Glücksbringer . " |
| 16 | ‘ But if I should ask you for — say , a cordial , to relieve my troubles … ’ |
| 17 | This is completely outside our control , but if you 're affected , write to us on your return and we 'll compensate you for outbound delays as follows : |
| 18 | We shall need some more singers to do , are you ready to sing cos we might need you for something else up there , you 'll never know . |
| 19 | Then , when you returned , school would have started and they would beat you for being late . |
| 20 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |
| 21 | But I 'll pay you for the two lots of coffee . |
| 22 | I miss you dreadfully darling daddy , but I will love you for ever . |
| 23 | Only a man could say such cruel things , ’ and then , belatedly , remembering her manners , which her mama had so often told her she was always forgetting , ‘ But I must thank you for taking me in . |
| 24 | Taliesin , rather appalled at the ‘ on his own ’ part of this speech , said , ‘ But we might need you for all kinds of things , Fribble . |
| 25 | You 're lucky because I 'll tell you for why , you ca n't change a video if you buy . |
| 26 | That 's an er an expenses form and you know bring this information with you to the in-house course , the three days in-house erm because they 'll ask you for that at the end of . |
| 27 | ‘ That would be the stupidest thing you ever did because he 'll fight you for your child and he 'll win . ’ |
| 28 | Nowadays almost all employers require one before they will call you for interview . |
| 29 | He was wanting to know whether he could expect you for lunch . ’ |
| 30 | the bank will not mind , though they may charge you for a management fee . |