Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've known Arnie for ages . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 3 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 4 | She 'd known Nick for years , meeting him when she 'd come to London to visit her cousin Mark Bristow , Sally 's son . |
| 5 | She had known Nancy for years , of course . |
| 6 | She wanted to beg Philippa for understanding , for belief . |
| 7 | and they live near them and his wife 's , he 's away from home a lot , so his wife 's happy because she 's got Joan for company and gradually she 's getting her old self and she wo n't be coming over today so she 's phoned her granddad up to let him know so he wo n't be worried . |
| 8 | As with the Fairbanks-Pickford-Chaplin-Griffith studio , the dream would turn sour , and the participants would all too soon realise they had mistaken Hollywood for Cloud-Cuckoo Land . |
| 9 | She hardly knew them , had met them only once , Jacob had reminded her , at her grandmother 's funeral in Portugal , before they had left Europe for America . |
| 10 | In 1685 he planned to raise London for James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , during the Monmouth rebellion . |
| 11 | He wrote laconically that night to John Prior Estlin , leaving unstated the bewilderment he evidently felt as he prepared to exchange Somerset for Shropshire . |
| 12 | During this period he contracted to serve Edward for life and from 1317 he was summoned to Parliament . |
| 13 | He had left India for Egypt because he wanted to get out , not up . |
| 14 | Obliged to ask parliament for funds for these expeditions and for his other expenses , the King found that , instead of voting him the customs duties for life , as was normal on the monarch s accession , it attempted to impeach Buckingham for corruption and incompetence . |