Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 2 | Yeah but Arthur she only takes after you for that . |
| 3 | And if we get it right first time , we 'll have a satisfied client who will hopefully return to us for more work . |
| 4 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 5 | Will you really stay with me for all time , be my wife ? ’ |
| 6 | The reasons for this apparent perversity are probably now lost to us for all time . |
| 7 | And now accommodation has been provisionally reserved for you for that date . |
| 8 | The official table of appointments in 1779 for the college of foreign affairs , which lasted until it was slightly modified by Catherine 's son Paul in 1800 , provided for each mission abroad to have two students regularly attached to it for these purposes . |
| 9 | ‘ We had builders here for six months before we moved in , and then lived with them for another year , ’ says Sally , who was not only busy with their two young daughters , but was also running a full-time interior decoration business in Cirencester . |
| 10 | Robbie nodded , mentally apologising to him for all the scathing epithets that had so nearly tumbled from her lips . |