Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |
| 2 | He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences . |
| 3 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 4 | I want to know that someone out there cares for me , not that I 've got no one or nothing . |
| 5 | The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava . |
| 6 | I invariably never charge for giving my opinion , which is freely available to those who seek it , and this includes the London auction rooms . |
| 7 | I then subsequently asked for an iris to be put into the Dalek so that we could do a close up of the eye irising in and out to get the effect of its eye focussing on you . |
| 8 | A customer approached him , he arranged the theft , someone else took the risk , someone else again arranged for transport , your husband paid them , of course , but he collected the fee from the buyer . ’ |
| 9 | I found that I no longer felt for Jean-Claude but for myself . |
| 10 | er , my Lord there has not been disclosed by the plaintiffs anything more than one copy of the brochure for each site we 've got in the my Lord might I therefore formally call for disclosures of each addition of the brochures that the jury have them |
| 11 | ‘ I never really cared for Madame Bovary , ’ she said , ‘ but Tolstoy is another matter . ’ |
| 12 | And I never really asked for her . |
| 13 | I remember when the wild-west look was in fashion , though I must confess I never really cared for it myself . ’ |
| 14 | And I never much cared for the bumptious , muscular side of The Smiths , so I welcome the spaciness Vini Reilly brings as new guitarist , whether it 's the lurid wig-out of ‘ Alsatian Cousin' or the dew-and-moonbeam iridescence of ‘ Late Night , Maudlin Street ’ . |
| 15 | He did n't approve of me , and to be honest I never much cared for him , either . |
| 16 | I get it form most of his kind , who remember that I was once a private investigator , and so to them not far removed for law . |
| 17 | Its not easy buying for old ‘ uns these days . |
| 18 | The thought of all the ingenuity and hard Scottish toil spent on the line 's construction being deliberately discarded by a bunch of greedy , sly , ignorant English Conservatives in London that nobody up here voted for makes my rage barely containable . |
| 19 | Ken erm y you 've asked some questions , I 've actually seen the I M R O letter and can I say that there are two questions in the I M R O letter to Mr Maxwell and Bishopsgate , which quite categorically asked for accounts and also details of the ownership structure coming out of Liechtenstein . |
| 20 | Which very definitely called for Bushmills whiskey . |
| 21 | This presupposes that pieces are not too long and that they are properly rehearsed set-pieces rather than the meaningless meanderings which too often pass for improvisation . |
| 22 | She broke away before he could get a stranglehold and made her way to the podium , hitching up her dress and putting on her very best smile for the tridvid sages . |
| 23 | She rarely even stopped for tea . |
| 24 | It was what she most urgently craved for . |
| 25 | Making love to me may help you to forget for a while , but it wo n't change the feelings you obviously still have for her , whether you care to admit it or not . ’ |
| 26 | " I 'm sorry to have given you so much bother for nothing . " |
| 27 | In many parts of the Asian elephants ' range the slaughter began with the coming of colonial man , who not only shot for sport but also cleared the forest for rubber and other crops and naturally did not want elephants to undo his good work . |
| 28 | When the snow clears a little , I 'll drive you up there to see for yourself . |
| 29 | There are many housing associations who now actively cater for the independent disabled . |
| 30 | BELVILLE : Well , I believe she now only waits for you to drive her . |