Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 3 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 6 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 7 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 8 | I want to commend you for the excellent job you have done on the Missing Girl story , from the time it broke until her body was found . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 10 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 11 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 12 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 13 | done it , she said I was reading it here and I meant to ask you for the , she said , anyway when he come back I said have you found them out , alright , he said I 've had a go he said |
| 14 | Erm , I mean , he wrote a lot , I saw him church on Sunday and I did thank him for the letter |
| 15 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 16 | erm I ca n't hear for Dorothy 's car , what did you say ? is he going I think I 'd better I said thank you for the cake |
| 17 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 18 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 19 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 20 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 21 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 22 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 23 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 24 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 25 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 26 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 27 | I 've wanted it for a very long time , and it will happen , I promise , but not now , not yet . ’ |
| 28 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 29 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 30 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |