Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I certainly would not like to do without my own sound card now that I 've had one for some time , and I 'm seriously considering changing it for a Laserwave Plus , purely because I find its configurability and standard of sound to be better than the one I already have . |
| 2 | To the same guy that I 'd bought it for twe er for twenty off . |
| 3 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 4 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 5 | I read both books this year and found them so interesting and closely related , that I decided to use them for my coursework . |
| 6 | Then he said : ‘ You have been so kind to us that I want to do something for you in return . |
| 7 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 8 | How often is it that I have asked you for money ? |
| 9 | It is a truism to say that nobody likes paying anything for any service . |
| 10 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 11 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |
| 12 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 13 | He pushed through the swing doors and was gone , leaving her close to tears and frantically worried that she had upset him for ever . |
| 14 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 15 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 16 | You are now able to see the problem from a higher perspective , knowing that you have created it for a reason . |
| 17 | It assumes that you need to organize it for yourself rather than expecting other people to be responsible for your development . |
| 18 | You may then decide that either you do not need to interview anyone at all because no job exists or that you need to interview someone for a quite different role , perhaps involving taking on various responsibilities of other employees which together form a more rational and cohesive whole . |
| 19 | Beer seems such a simple drink that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 20 | Technology is so pervasive , so much an intrinsic part of modern life , that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 21 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |
| 22 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 23 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 24 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 25 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 26 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 27 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 28 | So again there are n't many things that do complete , swimming I think I far as I can see is the only one that does , but then again that depends on how you use the swimming , it , it just , just cos you bathes every week does n't necessarily mean that it does do it for you , it depends what you do , okay ? |
| 29 | Remember , the protectiveness of your subconscious is unlikely to allow you to go straight to a period or an event so traumatic that it has affected you for such a long time afterwards . |
| 30 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |