Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 2 | I only tax mine for six month now then , ay ? |
| 3 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 4 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 5 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 7 | Because such objects gain value as time elapses it means that a profit can be realised by anyone patient enough to conceal them for twenty years . |
| 8 | You can only swap it for nice things . |
| 9 | She patiently gammed him for long minutes ; fondling his testicles with one hand , and exploring the cleft of his arse with the other . |
| 10 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 11 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 12 | He swiftly chided himself for such thoughts ; he 'd been taught to shun physical contact , even on a platonic level . |
| 13 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 14 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 15 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 16 | They 're rich enough to pay for it and smart enough to get it for free . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll only require you for one hour a day . |
| 18 | When he only bought them for three X ? |
| 19 | So join us for that and loads of other goodies tomorrow . |
| 20 | So thank you for 1991 , and go for it in 1992 . |
| 21 | They apparently need them for all manner of reasons . ’ |
| 22 | One can then perhaps forgive them for faulty ( though consistent ) reasoning on the ( conventional ) comparative static effects ? |
| 23 | If this is what they need now , this is what you give them , er , on the understanding that perhaps they only have it for fifteen or ten years , but in fifteen or ten years ' time , they might well be able to afford to extend it and pay more . |
| 24 | not using it for some |
| 25 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 26 | The tribunal will generally compensate you for lost fringe benefits , although putting a figure upon them is often another exercise in guesstimation . |
| 27 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 28 | But how does a person normally prepare himself for frightening and distressing events ? |
| 29 | I 'm not thanking you for that Phil . |
| 30 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |