Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 2 | Collins , for example , bought a very fine work off me for 600 roubles . |
| 3 | After that she tried even harder and now , at last , she really is off them for good . ’ |
| 4 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 5 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 6 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 7 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 8 | Schools entering into an entrepreneurial spirit should not , for example , sell school records to promoters of consumer goods or allow journalists or public relations consultants to leaf through them for good stories . |
| 9 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 10 | However , parameters for them for individual writers could be extracted from an initial training phase for a script recognition system . |
| 11 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 12 | It 's alw always very useful that er erm if we have to people have to ask us to wait around for them for five or six weeks or sometimes on a three monthly er er resignation thing it er |
| 13 | The defendant firm lawfully terminated the employment of the plaintiff who had worked for them for many years . |
| 14 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 15 | It was the first physical contact between them for four years , but for just an instant it had seemed as if it had only been yesterday when she had last touched him . |
| 16 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 17 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 18 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 19 | For example I had my bottom wiped for me for six weeks . |
| 20 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 21 | Yeah but Arthur she only takes after you for that . |
| 22 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
| 23 | Then I 'd be looking after you for both products and what I want to do is have a look at all the standard bearings you take to see if there is potential for a supply . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps you can look after her for five minutes while I go and book the rooms ? ’ |
| 25 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |
| 26 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 27 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 28 | My dad would say , Stay well away from them , he was always afraid they were after him for all the taxes he had n't paid . |
| 29 | Ace followed her , prudently shutting the big sliding glass doors after him for more privacy . |
| 30 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |