Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 2 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 3 | I yearn for the love and affection I once had , ’ she cried passionately . |
| 4 | I look for the dog or the jogging suit and if they have n't got a dog or a jogging suit I think what are they up to ? |
| 5 | I paid for the petrol and the mints , and the young chap said : ‘ It 's Geoffrey Boycott sat in that car , is n't it ? ’ |
| 6 | I paid for the taxi because he had no change . |
| 7 | I raced for the door and high-kneed it through the trees . |
| 8 | I ducked so fast I was n't sure whether he 'd seen me or not , but it gave me a prickly feeling just to imagine it , so I scuttled for the door and legged it up the spiral stairway three steps at a time , just in case . |
| 9 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 10 | I 'd told her I worked for the Post and she said she 'd already told Rain all about it . ’ |
| 11 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 12 | I apologize for the fact that delays in obtaining some of the necessary information have made it impossible to produce detailed cost estimates , but the considerations listed below should enable us to determine whether such a change would be worthwhile . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've nothing to add except to say that I 'm surprised no one 's tried to squeeze more out of me since and I apologize for the fact that there 's only one chair here so I ca n't ask you to sit down . ’ |
| 14 | He just ca n't put it forward , so you have to get a book and do it yourself , and then I ask for the syllabus so I can make sure |
| 15 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 16 | I went for the day and I saw Christopher Reed superman . |
| 17 | Erm which is why I went for the downstairs cos I had a choice of either . |
| 18 | It 's fairly readable , I think for the non-forester as well as being fairly technical of course as well . |
| 19 | How many charter marks do I get for the notion that The Servant of Two Masters is worth doing ? |
| 20 | Asked by an exit pollster which way he had cast his vote , he replied : ‘ I voted for the party that is going to run the country for the next five years . ’ |
| 21 | Ricardo shows great patience with me as I reach for the dictionary or , using a book and his long fingers , he makes the rituals clear to me . |
| 22 | I reach for the dictionary when I want to know how I should use it . |
| 23 | She made for the stand where her umbrella was kept . |
| 24 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 25 | ‘ She lived for the family and they all worshipped her . ’ |
| 26 | It still sleeps with its mother in the rudimentary nest she builds for the night but practises building nests for itself . |
| 27 | She asked for the secretary and launched on a long story about phoning from a restaurant where a pair of leather gloves had been found apparently left by the lady with Mr Johnston whom one of the waiters had remembered seeing at the sports club . |
| 28 | ‘ Basically , we are just much more tolerant than men , ’ says Judith Jackson , one of the tiny minority of female motoring correspondents — she writes for The Guardian and Homes & Gardens . |
| 29 | So while the Paseo feel safe and secure through corners , you long for the poise and quick reflexes of a CRX . |
| 30 | Instinctively , she headed for the door that led out into the garden . |