Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to thank you for the feature Redundancy — Your Survival Guide ( September GH ) . |
| 2 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 3 | And sir , both of you , both you sir , Mr and you sir , Mr , er I would like to thank you for the way in the way you have conducted this enquiry . |
| 4 | I would like to thank you for the interest you have shown in this post . |
| 5 | Let's have a look at how you manage your time at the moment and how you 'd like to reorganize it for the future . |
| 6 | I would like to see them for the Falls . |
| 7 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 8 | I would like to commend you for the support you give to rural artists and craftspeople , through your excellent articles — especially at a time when , due to cuts in grants , such people need all the help they can get . |
| 9 | And at the end of the evening he said , ‘ Give me your number , I 'd like to have it for the future . ’ |
| 10 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 11 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 12 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 14 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 15 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 17 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 18 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 19 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 20 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 21 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 22 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 23 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 24 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 25 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
| 26 | She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself . |
| 27 | Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to . |
| 28 | Nimbus says that when the superscalars become available , cloners will simply have to swap them for the Cypress part . |
| 29 | " And could you have borrowed one for the night ? " |
| 30 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |