Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 2 | But then there 's a funny thing , Yellow Pages are some people you get a contact through Yellow Pages er which is not actually selling crackers but somebody wanted to know about you for something else you know , like . |
| 3 | I 've been trying to write about him for weeks . ’ |
| 4 | I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc . |
| 5 | What on earth have I agreed to work for him for ? she asked herself despairingly . |
| 6 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 7 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 8 | ‘ Say what you like , there 's no way I 'm going to agree to work for you for three years . |
| 9 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 10 | He used to come after me for music lesson every week , I can always |
| 11 | He asked us to call a group together , black and white , to meet with him for two days to seek God 's guidance together . |
| 12 | Ted puffed energetically at his , uncertain yet whether to congratulate himself on being parked up here with this very attractive young girl , or to commiserate with himself for his failure to make more than token progress . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 14 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 15 | And I want to work with you for a new Kenya . ’ |
| 16 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 17 | You may like to write to him for more details . |
| 18 | If there is anyone in your parish whom you think might be interested and suitable , perhaps you would draw their attention to these posts and encourage them to write to me for application forms and job description . |
| 19 | Incidentally , although it 's impractical for people to call Ampeg , I have a box number for anyone who might want to write to me for advice . |
| 20 | Not only her own people but other people used to come to her for advice … |
| 21 | ‘ You mean if he had not to come to her for money , he would not have come at all ? ’ |
| 22 | I mean er I 'll I 'll still need them to come to me for er entering |
| 23 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 24 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 25 | Said John , well , we 've got other ideas we 'd like you to come to us for Christmas , so I thought , as I said to Brenda , you do n't turn down an invitation from your own children |
| 26 | Put another way , the more the teacher is explicit about what behaviour is wanted , the less opportunity the pupils have to come to it for themselves and make the underlying knowledge or understanding their own . |
| 27 | I said to Cheryl please do n't go and invite to come to yours for dinner now and because insult us cos we 're not without him cos I 'm prepared to go I look forward to that . |
| 28 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 29 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 30 | The cause was a common one and as old as the hills , but I was unable to talk about it for years . |