Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The card signifies our regard for you as an important customer who warrants priority attention at our service station . |
| 2 | As soon as she had realized that he was making no attempt to disguise his liking for her , she had known that there was no hope . |
| 3 | Whatever future plans the young man may have had , fate decided his course for him . |
| 4 | In one such festival , her husband shows his love for her by presenting her with a new dress and himself attending to her hairdo and make up . |
| 5 | This popular attachment to church festivities persisted well into Elizabeth 's reign , the laity demonstrating their affection for them by vociferously opposing the efforts of godly ministers or town corporations to suppress them . |
| 6 | I always come back to the Stones when I think of The Smiths , because of the camp , but mainly because of the way each band illuminates their era for us . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean that one of the family got the gang to do their murder for them ? |
| 8 | Several others , on the other hand , were ‘ on the best of terms ’ with their children , including two in shared households and another couple who said ‘ their children are very good to them ; one daughter does their washing for them and their daughter-in-law goes up nearly every day to do their shopping for them ’ . |
| 9 | So , they 've hired you for thirty pence a mile to do their roadwork for them . |
| 10 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 11 | Gold Blend beauty Sharon Maughan finally gets her man when co-star Tony Head declares his love for her over a coffee . |
| 12 | A friend does my hair for me , she 's a freelance hairdresser . |
| 13 | It is an unwritten agreement and if we renege on it , let us not be surprised if our dog loses his respect for us , for we are not worthy of being called Master . |
| 14 | A man keeps his money for him , giving him a dollar each day . |
| 15 | ‘ Then your uncle smashed his camera for him . |
| 16 | They were so unhappy that life lost its perspective for them . ’ |
| 17 | One had the feeling that she was happy enough just to let her racket do her talking for her … |
| 18 | Several others , on the other hand , were ‘ on the best of terms ’ with their children , including two in shared households and another couple who said ‘ their children are very good to them ; one daughter does their washing for them and their daughter-in-law goes up nearly every day to do their shopping for them ’ . |
| 19 | PRINCESS Diana was at the centre of a mystery last night after a US paper claimed she had been recorded chatting to a man declaring his love for her . |
| 20 | During a walkabout on Merseyside , the Princess of Wales was overcome by tears after the crowd voiced their support for her amid the current press controversy surrounding her marriage . |
| 21 | ‘ They ought to thank us for letting our Thing do their job for them , ’ said Gurder solemnly . |
| 22 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 23 | no money and she said she 'd got , she 'd got a loan from the bank to pay her mummy for her |
| 24 | If there 's no-one on hand to wash your back for you , keep a loofah or gentle scrubbing brush by the bath . |
| 25 | If you are , get another nurse to do your shift for you — you can do that , ca n't you ? |
| 26 | The weekend lost its appeal for me when it came to the fundamental rebirthing philosophy . |
| 27 | Your dad pays his share for me , comes out of his wages if I paid , it 's just extra on top of all that , if I was paying any |
| 28 | ‘ I hope Luib 's bunch bloodied their nose for them , or things are going to be rather tight around here in a few moments . ’ |