Example sentences of "[vb base] [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall thanking him for his consideration , but quite probably I said nothing very definite for my employer went on : |
| 2 | That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food . |
| 3 | I like baking it for him ! |
| 4 | Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing . |
| 5 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Course he will , ’ Joe snapped , ‘ bin doin it for twenty year . |
| 7 | I know I 'm not a wallflower — other boys keep asking me for a date — but Harry just does n't seem to notice me . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes they see you in the street and start searching you for no reason . |
| 9 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 10 | He was afraid she might see him sticking out and start taking him for granted or make unwomanly advances . |