Example sentences of "for [pron] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , my comrade in arms , my friend for whom I would have given my life . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But Ivy has turned out to be so good for me I must have done the right thing . |
| 3 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 4 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 5 | If the Government had listened to the police and taken prompt action on any of those warnings — action for which they could have secured all-party support — I have no doubt that some of this summer 's tragedies would have been avoided . |
| 6 | In the corner between the window and the fireside was a cupboard , apparently full of plates and dishes , cups and saucers , and some more nondescript articles , for which one would have fancied their possessors could find no use — such as triangular pieces of glass to save carving knives and forks from dirtying tablecloths . |
| 7 | It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics . |
| 8 | To me ‘ positive'/ ‘ negative ’ seemed too sharp a distinction , for which I should have preferred the category ‘ included'/ ‘ excluded ’ . |
| 9 | While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million . |
| 10 | While this spared the Bush Administration from the perils of thinking for itself , or heaven forbid , taking a policy decision for which it might get criticised , it naively ignored the danger that Bonn might have a large axe of its own to grind . |
| 11 | It was everything for which he could have asked . |
| 12 | ‘ The facts speak for themselves ; if Dana had any feelings for you she 'd have refused my offer . |
| 13 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 14 | ‘ If the knackers had bid for him I would have outbid him and kept him myself , I do n't care how much it would have cost , ’ she says . |
| 15 | If Ace had any real feelings for her he would have taken her prohibition as a challenge , and made love to her until she welcomed him joyfully into her bed . |
| 16 | That caveat notwithstanding , those close to Mr Bush insist that there was an effort to get a non-military solution , and that if Saddam Hussein had reached out for it he could have walked away from Kuwait with something gained from his adventure . |
| 17 | You see the piece I just read is a monologue and if I 'd known there was a competition for it I 'd have sent it there rather than |
| 18 | Police are appealing for anyone who might have seen the red London coach on the M40 before the accident to come forward . |
| 19 | Detectives hunting the raiders have appealed for anyone who may have witnessed the incident in Brodie Avenue just after 6pm on Tuesday . |
| 20 | In 1986 , there was a nationwide appeal for anyone who may have seen Joan to come forward . |
| 21 | Police are appealing for anyone who may have seen the men to come forward . |
| 22 | I know her well , and how brave she is , and by God , for whatever he may have done he shall pay , and pay again . |
| 23 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 24 | Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds , there should have been a tidy sum . |
| 25 | Minter would n't have paid you a penny for what you might have got out of me . |
| 26 | You can sue the solicitor for what you would have collected , had he done his job properly , because the law reckons he owed you , as well as his client , a duty of care . |
| 27 | I 've been racking my brains for what I could have done , then it struck me . |
| 28 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 29 | He knew that four of them would n't come for anything he might have done . |