Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 2 | On the day Sir Hubert arrived in Rangoon he sent for me to thank me for the way in which this delicate matter had been handled . |
| 3 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 4 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 5 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 6 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 7 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah I mean she for a bit she was the party was n't she ? |
| 9 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 10 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
| 12 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
| 13 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 14 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
| 15 | But I do n't think in gender terms at all when I interview someone for a job . |
| 16 | ‘ Could I trouble you for a receipt ? ’ |
| 17 | But might I trouble you for a cup of hot water ? ’ |
| 18 | He went and bought a pack of cigarettes from the machine behind him , searched his pockets , then asked : ‘ Could I trouble you for a light , Miss ? ’ |
| 19 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 20 | I want you for the West End after your six weeks in the sticks , and you 'll have to have a bit of bosom . ’ |
| 21 | I want you for an angel ! |
| 22 | Yeah but I want it for the men that 's going to alter the gas . |
| 23 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 24 | I needs it for a wager on the Brasseywing . ’ |
| 25 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 26 | I interviewed her for a nature programme . |
| 27 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 28 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |
| 29 | There 's a man and a woman sitting at a table by the window , and I watch them for a bit . |
| 30 | I watch them for a bit , but they do n't win nothing . |