Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was phoning to thank you for getting me out of police headquarters . ’ |
| 2 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |
| 3 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 4 | Green was evidently helping to sell it for Yates in Manchester , as Harrop 's Mercury , December 12th 1787 , p.1906 says , ‘ subscribers may be supplied also by Mr. Green , Manchester , who was an assistant in this work ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I am writing to thank you for a lovely holiday near Brno in Czechoslovakia at the Hotel Form . |
| 6 | I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article . |
| 7 | ‘ Dear Fatal , ’ writes Philip Saunders from North Devon , ‘ I 'm writing to thank you for the excellent screen wipes . |
| 8 | I am writing to thank you for the coverage you gave my launch as the No More Pylons candidate ( Echo March 26 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’ |
| 11 | Wanting to keep her for himself , and not wishing to give away her identity to his colleagues , he gives her a male name : ‘ Bob ’ — to the delight of the audience , who then laugh each time he uses the name . |
| 12 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been wanting to tell you for ages , but I could n't while you were so worried . |
| 14 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 15 | The judgment effectively absolved it of criminal and civil liability for causing approximately 3,500 deaths and injuries to thousands , and the final settlement was only a percentage of the orginial sum of $3.5 billion that the government was going to sue them for . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 17 | He was going to lose her for good and was powerless to stop the inexorable wheel of Fortune from taking her from him . |
| 18 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |
| 19 | ‘ Mrs Wormwood is n't going to thank you for this , ’ the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen . |
| 20 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 21 | And , if you 're travelling solo , no one 's going to compensate you for having to change your plans at the last minute . |
| 22 | Once when a policeman announced he was going to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly , Minton pointed to his helmet and expostulated , ‘ What ! |
| 23 | People think you could be there waiting to arrest them for drinking and driving in the car park . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 25 | Nobody 's going to fire you for that ! |
| 26 | Well there 's no point in me watching it if I 'm going to record it for you . |
| 27 | How many men are you going to give me for this work ? ’ |
| 28 | What we need to know now is what the Brigadier here is going to give us for lunch . |
| 29 | What 's mummy going to give you for your lunch . |
| 30 | But what you are saying is you 're not going to give it for free ? |