Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Joseph Shill , I am arresting you for the murder of your wife , Maria Shill , at Windsor , on 19th December . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Miles Engado , I am arresting you for the — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They pay me , ’ he says , before qualifying his statement : ‘ I am doing it for the love of my art . |
| 4 | He thinks that I am selling her for the night . |
| 5 | ‘ Tommy Cook , I 'm arresting you for the murder of Christopher Jabelman … ‘ |
| 6 | ‘ Iain MacPherson , I 'm arresting you for the … ‘ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 9 | It 's all I 'm giving you for the moment : I seem to be embarrassing my client . |
| 10 | I 'm growing them for the wedding , they 'll have to get cut because I break them . |
| 11 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 12 | I was doing them for the wrong reasons — out of curiosity or for the money , rather than because I had a passion for doing them . |
| 13 | I did think I was doing it for the best . |
| 14 | I was doing it for the drive anyway . |
| 15 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 16 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 19 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 20 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 21 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 22 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 23 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 24 | even though she 's getting it for the technology . |
| 25 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
| 26 | No well she had this special thing so it 's done the trick so she has n't worn it yet though , I think she 's doing it for the wedding ai n't she ? |
| 27 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 28 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 29 | It er we are expecting him for the course on that date . |
| 30 | We 're ignoring them for the moment . ’ |