Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 2 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
| 3 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 4 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 5 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 6 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 7 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 8 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 9 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 10 | In despair , I did nothing for another week . |
| 11 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
| 12 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 13 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 14 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 15 | She paid me for this week and she said well I you 've got ninety pound here |
| 16 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 17 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 18 | and , what happened was it was a hell of a stink in dock , because there was all different workers for different jobs , it was one for fitting car seats , you had one for fitting glass , you had one for doing engine , one for fitting the gear box , one fitting wheels on , so you had ten blokes just doing one job on a car |
| 19 | He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press . |
| 20 | We asked him for general news . |
| 21 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 22 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 23 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
| 24 | They asked me for more money . |
| 25 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 26 | but that , as I say for England and France erm they closed it for some reason |
| 27 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 28 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 29 | Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman . |
| 30 | Suragai 's hands were already scratched and bleeding , and he was cursing quietly in his own tongue as he positioned himself for another rescue attempt . |