Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 2 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 3 | Last season , Dungannon won the Ulster League which qualified them for a ‘ round-robin ’ series with the other provincial winners in a bid to gain entry to the AIL . |
| 4 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 5 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 6 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 7 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 8 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 9 | Then I felt a pressure on my arm and a soft female voice asked me for a light . |
| 10 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , come on , that 's why you asked me for a drink . |
| 12 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 13 | And she asked me for the fifty P . |
| 14 | When I did , something about its stillness stilled me for a moment . |
| 15 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 16 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 17 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 18 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 19 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 20 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 21 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 22 | Woolworth chief Geoff Mulcahy 's shares cost £374,000 — and he sold them for a £1,037,000 profit . |
| 23 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 24 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 25 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 26 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 27 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 28 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 29 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 30 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |