Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of my reading , the lecturer asked the newcomer his name , and I heard his voice for the first time — a soft , warm American accent , with the rich , furry tone the English find so attractive . |
| 2 | ‘ She spent Christmas with me and my wife Pam and I took her dog for a walk . ’ |
| 3 | You 're saying that Tom and old Maggie Sullivan and I cut his throat for him ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Far from it ! ’ she said thickly , but her racing pulses told him a different story , and she knew her desire for him was growing stronger with each moment they spent together . |
| 5 | The silence was broken by the entrance of Edward Morris , he smiled at her warmly and she returned his smile for this was a generous customer , a rare being who had paid her in advance for her work . |
| 6 | He was no longer scanning her , after his ordinary greeting , and she plumbed his manner for significance , without success . |
| 7 | Lincolnshire is a flat county , you see , exactly right for aerodromes , and they took our house for the airmen , I suppose . |
| 8 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 9 | And they lost their courage for life |
| 10 | Well you could do your own bands , but you were awful lucky if there was only the bairns about , and they did your band for you . |
| 11 | And he had his permission for the charter … |
| 12 | Police were called and he swapped his castle for a cell . |
| 13 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 14 | ‘ I can cope , ’ I said and he took my word for it . |
| 15 | And he bought our motorbike for twelve pounds . |
| 16 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 17 | Sudden pity softened him towards her , and he forgot his urge for revenge . |
| 18 | ‘ I just pin the papers up in the dressing-room and it does my job for me . |
| 19 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 20 | But I blamed my body for what had happened , I hated it , I hated having breasts , I thought my body was saying : Hey , here I am , come and get me ! and I was terrified whenever I walked down the street . |
| 21 | ‘ We do n't carry their advertising , but we license our name for their use and let them take pictures of our boats . ’ |
| 22 | But he gave me money for my boat , and for Xury , too . |
| 23 | But he claims his request for details of the regulations was refused on the ground that they are ‘ very severe ’ and that Cameron Balloons would find it impossible to meet them . |
| 24 | It 's environmental benefits may be undisputed , but it seems its suitability for the car engine has now come into question . |
| 25 | But it seems my taste for traditional sex objects is terribly old-fashioned . |
| 26 | It was soul-destroying to him but it gave him money for his wife and child . |