Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have done it for myself . ’ |
| 3 | Well you should have left them for me really . |
| 4 | Seemed to think I should have known it for myself . |
| 5 | You must have mistaken me for someone else . |
| 6 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 7 | ‘ You must have hated him for what he did . ’ |
| 8 | " He must have made it for us ! " |
| 9 | ‘ Masklin must have got it for her , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 10 | And a try for you today , that must have sealed it for you |
| 11 | " If you wo n't do it yourself , I 'll have to do it for you . " |
| 12 | But we , cos I 'll have to do it for you so , something interesting for me to do . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll have given it for someone else who needs it just as badly , ’ Belinda finished for him . |
| 14 | You 'll have to buy them for your skiing trip . |
| 15 | Just tell me and I 'll try to get it for you . ‘ |
| 16 | I thought I 'd 've got them for me bleeding snap . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's your picture , Jake , ’ she used to say over the laddie 's cot , laughing like a witch ; and I could 've killed her for it . ’ |
| 18 | It was all Wilson could do to thank her for her concern . |
| 19 | Perhaps you 'd like to exchange them for something else in my shop . |
| 20 | But I 'd like to see it for myself . |
| 21 | ‘ On behalf of all the players , I 'd like to thank him for what he 's done , ’ said Heatherston . |
| 22 | Urine advertised as free of detectable drugs is on offer by mail-order to anxious test takers , who could try to substitute it for their own . |
| 23 | Mona hesitated , then offered : ‘ If you seriously need that list I could try to get it for you . |
| 24 | I 'd hate to spoil it for you . ’ |
| 25 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 26 | Nothing could have prepared him for its response . |
| 27 | I could have said it for him . |
| 28 | say if you 'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day . |
| 29 | If you 'd come out on the gig with me you could have held it for me . |
| 30 | ‘ I could have resolved it for you , ’ he said , ‘ if only you 'd come to see me earlier . |