Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You may thank me for the breakfast , ’ McAllister said , sitting down to attack her own meal with vigour , ‘ but the weather — now that , alas , is beyond me . |
| 2 | You ought to shop him for the income tax then |
| 3 | So if the carriages are at the right , you must set them for an anti-clockwise circle , if they 're at the left , for a clockwise circle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 4 | You must take me for a fool ! |
| 5 | ‘ You 're ordering me around again , if that 's what you mean , ’ she replied , ‘ and if you think I 'm going to trot obediently upstairs and take off all my clothes you must take me for a fool . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then you must thank her for the invitation and suggest a postponement . ’ |
| 7 | If you intend to proceed with the appeal on your own , you should contact me for a copy of the relevant parts of the Sheriff Court process . |
| 8 | There 's a spitball course going through now , you 'll join it for a couple of days . ’ |
| 9 | These are substitutes , but you 'll need it for the authentic taste . |
| 10 | ‘ Laura must be nearing forty — her daughter , Hilda , is sixteen — but you 'd take her for no more than thirty-five . |
| 11 | ‘ You could meet me for a drink sometimes . ’ |
| 12 | And if you could watch him for a while longer , you might discover just what he — a descendant of herd-living , company-loving , fast and flighty wild horses — feels about domestication . |
| 13 | If you could take them for a walk every day , from three to half-past four or something like that , I 'd be terribly grateful . |
| 14 | And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev . |
| 15 | ‘ You shall have it for a bride gift . ’ |
| 16 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 17 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 18 | ‘ Mary , my dear , you will excuse us for a moment . |
| 19 | Do you think you can hold it for an hour ? ’ |
| 20 | And you can do it for a fraction of the price and without finding yourself on first-name-terms with your local AA recovery team . |
| 21 | You can do it for a week . |
| 22 | When it comes to mixing the colours it 's totally different from mixing paints — but at least you can leave it for a while and come back to it later . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm buying it , but you can save it for the next guy . |
| 24 | ‘ You can close it for the moment , ’ Robyn said reluctantly , ‘ until I 've decided what to do . ’ |
| 25 | Your wife 's very tired — she 's bound to be weak , after losing so much blood — but you can see her for a few minutes . ’ |
| 26 | Do n't imagine you can play me for a fool . |
| 27 | Many writs are already framed and well recognized to meet the cases that usually arise ; you can have them for the asking , if you pay the fee . |
| 28 | • You can have it for a 14 day HOME TRIAL |
| 29 | You can use it for a lot of things , but when you get down to analyse it , I think it may be the law of the jungle where the strongest survive ; and I do n't know necessarily whether that 's a bad thing . |
| 30 | And that 's what we got imminence for — but you can use it for a lot more than that . |