Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do n't you give them to somebody for a present ? |
| 2 | Mrs Grandison had promised her daughter that they would not inflict themselves on her for a meal — realising that Lady Selvedge might well be something of an infliction — and had assumed that from Victoria they would take a taxi to some Soho restaurant or perhaps Simpsons in the Strand . |
| 3 | It all seemed very simple then — particularly when I could n't do anything about it for a month . |
| 4 | But he does n't do anything about it for a long time . |
| 5 | I think I 'll keep it to myself for a while . |
| 6 | That does not mean we will hear nothing from them for the next 25 days . |
| 7 | ‘ Because although we 'll try to outwit Balor , we might have him with us for a goodish while , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In his April review AB , while remaining loyal to the Walter and Klemperer versions , summed it up as ‘ the most compelling and most spontaneous of performances recorded in the past few years , and I shall want it by my for the sheer beauty of the sound , often in that respect surpassing any other version ’ . |