Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] [pron] 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 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 5 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've wanted it for a very long time , and it will happen , I promise , but not now , not yet . ’ |
| 9 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 12 | Well I 've seen 'em for a hundred now actually , a hundred quid . |
| 13 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 14 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 15 | I 've swapped it for a couple of weeks . |
| 16 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 17 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 18 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 19 | Mm Dave Allen 's on that as well the only bit , I think I 've set it for the Beast Master ai n't I ? |
| 20 | I 'm not having one I 've had mine for the month . |
| 21 | I 've had it for a week . |
| 22 | I 've rented it for a fortnight . |
| 23 | I 've got ours for the so that 's one fifty two and how much are these ? |
| 24 | Pic oh I 've got it for a week and if I get successful in doing so many tapes then I get twenty pound , twenty five pound v voucher to spend |
| 25 | ‘ On behalf of the family of my late brother , Robert , I wish to thank you for the compassion and care shown to him by your organization during his long and difficult illness . |
| 26 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 27 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 28 | ‘ I have forgiven you for the same ! ’ |
| 29 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
| 30 | If I have to lift them for a match of that importance then I might as well walk out of the job . ’ |