Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to do all their printing for them for their photographers . . |
| 2 | J , A , K , O , B. You 've got a cheque for me for £799 . ’ |
| 3 | We do n't even take any money off him for keep |
| 4 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 5 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
| 6 | Er that I remember come in laughing saying that he had no kitchen for him for her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | — reserves the money for you for up to three months . |
| 9 | I 'm not buying her a present , I mean I 'll chip in with a present for you for her and Mark if it comes , but we 'll have to go to , but erm , you know , she , . |
| 10 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 11 | Just a good experience for her for time , you know . |
| 12 | Oh , yes , he was himself again , he would be trailing this glory after him for as long as it still shed lustre . |
| 13 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 14 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 15 | Can you just get up and look under your seat for me for a moment ? |
| 16 | But this time trainer Josh Gifford has apparently made up Murphy 's mind for him for Saturday 's Kempton showpiece . |
| 17 | But the build-up to it had a familiar ring about it for Dave . |
| 18 | If one were starting a fast-food outlet aimed at selling sausages of various sorts and sizes prepared in different ways , it is unlikely that one would wish to open one 's new premises under the name of the proprietor ; ‘ Alan Pannett 's Sausage Cafe ’ , for instance , hardly has an impressive ring about it for marketing and promotion of this new product and business venture . |
| 19 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 20 | Oh they want another then they want another two pound off us for that now for postage |
| 21 | After fourteen minutes , Walston Ricketts looked to have set up Wayne Holden , only for the goalkeeper to superbly have the ball spin off him for a corner . |
| 22 | I also knew a great deal about it for , in the records room at the Bodleian , there was a tin trunk irreverently nicknamed ‘ Miss Jourdain 's baby ’ by the staff . |
| 23 | The kindness of my Kildalton friends in thinking of me for their minister is encouraging as showing that no truly earnest , honest . |
| 24 | Like Julia , in the earlier book , Beth catches things ‘ on the hop ’ — almost as a student whose mind is more imaginative than philosophical will react to a first reading of Bishop Berkeley by quickly turning his head , hoping to witness the sudden appearance or disappearance of those external objects which are supposed to depend on his perception of them for their existence . |
| 25 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 26 | If we can manage to get the tree-house finished by tomorrow , I 'll show you a way we can give him a piece of it for Father 's Day . ’ |
| 27 | I have been a fan of hers for a long time and it is wonderful to see that she is now achieving the status and success that she deserves . |
| 28 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 29 | He wrote this book , he started Traidcraft off , he was the person who was i his brainchild , he was the driving force behind it for a long time . |
| 30 | Luke rolled her back on the bed , their mouths still hungrily joined together , and she could feel his hand search behind her for the zip of her dress . |