Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [pers pn] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had felt it for my mother before my father left when she would intercept his post , putting certain violet-scented envelopes into the pocket of her dress and steaming them open in the kitchen after he had left for work . |
| 2 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 3 | I 've done it for my grandchildren this year . |
| 4 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 5 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 6 | Letterman implies that he had to divorce her for her own good ; he could not bear to see so much life force confined in marriage . |
| 7 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 8 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 9 | He had sworn at her , jeered at her , called her a lump of cold batter , told her to get to the devil , told her that he was sick of the sight of her , that he had married her for her money , that if she gave him any more of her canting preaching he 'd hit her one that she 'd remember . |
| 10 | The absurd fact was that he had married her for her gaiety . |
| 11 | Since the night he kissed her he had woken her for her watch by hammering on the deckhead until she shouted that she was on her way . |