Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 2 | I need to know the wiring for the Nato socket as I intend to use it for towing my caravan , but will need to alter the wiring to suit or obtain another Nato plug and add the 12n/12s plugs to this . |
| 3 | And then I agreed to do something for Émile that I did not wish to do , which made me ashamed . |
| 4 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 5 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 6 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 7 | That 's what I want to use it for . |
| 8 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 9 | There 's already a school for boys in Morton , and now I want to open one for girls , so I 've rented a building for it , with a small cottage for the schoolteacher . |
| 10 | WE had a lovely time in Lourdes , I want to thank everyone for looking after us both . |
| 11 | The cards and calls from well-wishers have been a real pick-me-up and I want to thank everyone for their concern and support . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight . |
| 13 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 17 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Nurse Shelley , I want to thank you for caring for me , ’ said the old lady . |
| 20 | ‘ No disrespect to you , Marge , but I want to save myself for when I get married . ’ |
| 21 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 22 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 23 | Then he said : ‘ You have been so kind to us that I want to do something for you in return . |
| 24 | ‘ Look here , you chaps , ’ he said , ‘ I want to do something for you . ’ |
| 25 | Playing music is what I love — and I want to do it for as long as possible . ’ |
| 26 | Her nose is all cold and wet and I want to wipe it for her , but I do n't . |
| 27 | I want to commend you for the excellent job you have done on the Missing Girl story , from the time it broke until her body was found . |
| 28 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 29 | How can I begin to tell her for what reason , in what capacity I live there , the Matron thought . |
| 30 | That 's , I know , I forgot to record it for you . |