Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 2 | Perhaps , because I had really addressed myself to him for the first time , he thought we were in accord . |
| 3 | Anyway , now that I 've got you to myself for a moment can we make some plans ? |
| 4 | ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment . |
| 5 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 6 | Charles had given it to her for a joke , suggesting she use it as a visual aid to introduce Saussurean linguistics to first-year undergraduates , holding the tube aloft to demonstrate that what is onomatopoeia in one language community may be obscenity in another . |
| 7 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |