Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't saying Kerslake was crap , just that I would swap him for Dixon , Parker , Nilsson or Rob Jones . |
| 2 | It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat . |
| 3 | I swear before God that I 'll expose you for what you are : a four times murderess . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I doubt that I 'll disturb you for much longer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You know that I 'll do anything for the children . |
| 6 | I think , therefore , that I must ask you for a ruling . |
| 7 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 8 | And anything that I can do you for three four three four three four to ring . |
| 9 | When a kestrel I was looking after died recently , I put it in the freezer so that I can use it for ‘ spares ’ if necessary . |
| 10 | and that means that I can photocopy them for half the price . |
| 11 | One o'clock — after lunch my mother shows me how to make a cake so that I can have it for tea . |
| 12 | If I were to ask a school-teacher to choose for me a sample which she considered to be a fair cross-section of her pupils so that I could interview them for a survey , there would almost certainly be a personal bias in the sample given to me . |
| 13 | I did n't realise that I could enjoy it for myself , not just for him . |
| 14 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I should do it for you ? ’ she queried sweetly . |
| 15 | Not that I 'd blame anyone for that . |
| 16 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
| 17 | Her virtue is so important to her that she can more easily contemplate her brother sacrificing his life to save her virginity than that she might sacrifice herself for him . |
| 18 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |
| 19 | Later that day , Mrs Knelle declared that she 'd take me for a drive , to see Ashford Castle , a local stately home that was now an hotel . |
| 20 | So she 's got her knuckles grazed , you 've cleansed it , put it into a drop of water , ra or else we 've used the Mediwipes or the end of the bandage okay , now we just cover it , okay , so it goes over , can you just straighten out your hand for me , it goes over the wound , okay and you can take this one that she can hold it for you just up there , right , now the rest of this just winds round , the only thing you really need to do is to just make sure that you leave the thumb out , cover up the bottom right and then come up towards the wrist , cover up the top of the pad , come back down again , leave the thumb out all the time , got the idea ? |
| 21 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 22 | She would raise her lamp and view the lover that she herself had grown , even if this meant that she must lose him for ever . |
| 23 | ‘ You said you wanted to meet my fiancée so that you could judge her for yourself . |
| 24 | I think university just trains you to think and to prove to an employer that you can apply yourself for three years ; perhaps because in the sciences you learn things that will be relevant in your career , but as a training for an individual I do n't think it is any more worthwhile . |
| 25 | Now , what I was gon na do now was go through this quoick transformation right , you 're not gon na be asked t to produce it in an exam or anything like that , but the reason why I 'm doing it now is that you will need it for your er , your Q M exam not er your exam , your project right , cos there is a similar applicat , it 's quite a commonly used tool you 'll find er , where wherever we have a , erm , an expression with an infinite number of erm possibilities or an in infinite number of arguments . |
| 26 | ‘ Though your Majesty 's affections may be very well known as to religion , ’ he urged , ‘ yet it may be expected that you should say something for the world 's satisfaction . ’ |
| 27 | We get quite used to our domestic dog actually bringing us sticks and balls so that we may throw them for our four-legged companion to retrieve . |
| 28 | The point is not that companies are ideal mechanisms for making decisions which have important social effects ( in the sense that we would choose them for this purpose other considerations being equal ) . |
| 29 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 30 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |