Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 2 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Dacre came to find me for the purpose of asking my permission to address you , ’ said Kirtlington . |
| 4 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 5 | She had not merely been a housekeeper but her qualities of efficiency , cheerfulness and gastronomic expertise seemed to fit her for the task of looking after this unusual pair . |
| 6 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
| 7 | Vass spread his long fingers over the chair arms and seemed to contemplate them for a moment . |
| 8 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 9 | Luke 's kiss , withheld to torment her for a moment while he stared into her darkened eyes , was an insult when it came , and yet insufficient to her hunger , because his mouth was torn away from hers again almost at once , plunging to suckle hard at one exposed breast for several agonising seconds , the message blatant — she was desired , and despised . |
| 10 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 11 | Hamnett became irate and , alleging breach of contract and damage to her image , threatened to sue him for a £500,000 . |
| 12 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 13 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 14 | He decided to wear it for the rest of his life . |
| 15 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 16 | We decided to hire him for the day , and negotiated a price . |
| 17 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 18 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 19 | The policewoman decided to believe her for the moment . |
| 20 | They wanted my bag and they grabbed it , but then they started to beat me for no reason except sheer wickedness . |
| 21 | They met at Cambridge when she — ‘ a lovely young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes ’ — went to interview him for the university newspaper . |
| 22 | No doubt about it , he meant to corner her for the evening . |
| 23 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 24 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 25 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 26 | He continued to watch her for a moment , then murmured , ‘ I liked him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ For some reason he was adamant that he simply had to have me for the make-up on the new play he 's doing . ’ |
| 28 | It was through a family connection , I think — anyway , as expected , she never had to ask me for a reference . |
| 29 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |
| 30 | And MacLane wanted to wallpaper me for the job . |