Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She turned , beamed a toothy non-smile at me for about a micro-second , then strode determinedly on . |
2 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
3 | If you have bought fresh livers , put them in a bowl of tepid , slightly salted water and leave them for about a couple of hours . |
4 | He said he was sure the shop assistants would know what he wanted them for from the way he asked . |
5 | That 's what he bought them for in the first place . ’ |
6 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
7 | Olazabal should have emulated him for in the afternoon he proceeded to miss a string of short putts . |
8 | The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds . |
9 | As a life-long Socialist , Baroness Castle admits that politics has been the breath of life to her for over the last 50 years . |
10 | She said , I think she were gon na wonder what , what they 're gon na do to her for for the copy machine . |
11 | they , they , well they just send what it for to the car , they did n't know what , what sort of car or the registration of it or something , they want to know , you know . |
12 | And we 've had to pay it for from the twentieth of September to the eighth of October . |
13 | The legal position in relation to the ag arrangement is uncertain since it is not expressed to provide it for in the will of Mrs who is , who is the very kindly elderly neighbour who is the landlord , but is only contained in a letter of Mrs from whom I have not heard in evidence . |
14 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
15 | Mm , mm , you see , cos even if we sort of made it for like the middle of next week , er , no not next week , the week after |