Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly all of you promised to promote Society membership and I thank you for that . |
| 2 | So both in your letter to me and your letter to Mr Deva MP , you are helping to keep the voice of public opinion heard , and I thank you for both . |
| 3 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 4 | And I respect him for that . |
| 5 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
| 6 | I say twelve , and I let it for less because I 'm soft-hearted . |
| 7 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 8 | Councillor is on record , in fact not long after taking his job , that he does n't care much for state education , he prefers , grant maintained schools , the assisted places scheme , which I 'm pleased to say , Lord Mayor , we do n't operate in this district and neither did the Tories when they were in power and I applaud them for that |
| 9 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 10 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 11 | put this program in and you swap it for this er map disk , then it comes up , you tell it where you are , where you going to and it works your route out |
| 12 | You wanted a man , and you wanted him for good — because after all , you were getting on then , were n't you ? |
| 13 | Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid . |
| 14 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 15 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 16 | He was offering her an out and she respected him for that . |
| 17 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 18 | The truth was there in his eyes , and she hated him for that , too . |
| 19 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
| 20 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 21 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 22 | And the same thing , that if a major client like the Health and Safety Executive said to me , Ricky we 're running a regional training week in the last week of November , and we want you for three days , you know , I , I do n't say to them well look you know , well two of those days are catch up days , I ca n't possibly do it , why do n't you move your whole regional training week to next week ? |
| 23 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 24 | Yeah , they buy gas at eighteen P and they sell it for forty three P . |
| 25 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 26 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 27 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 28 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 29 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |