Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill .
2 The , if any of the ladies would like to go down to the village or anybody , the church is open and I think there 's somebody there who would welcome you to show you round the church down in the village which , I know , during the war years at different times , quite a lot of you chaps did attend and er so we do hope you will see and , and of course later on I hope you 'll be coming down to mine for a cup of tea .
3 Maggie added : ‘ Keith sees Rose whenever he wants , either by popping in here or she goes over to him for the day . ’
4 They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look .
5 Why wo n't you come over to us for a week , or even for a night ? "
6 Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island .
7 Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective .
8 It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time .
9 It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus .
10 She talked of her children , far away in the north at Alnwick castle with their household , and of the late Spring when she would take her husband home to them for a brief visit .
11 Later I trained a kestrel which I found much less inquisitive and more likely to come straight to me for the food .
12 Claudia shivered ; her twin was n't alone in her fear , but Dana would n't be able to stand up to him for a moment .
13 Dana could n't stand up to him for a moment . ’
14 She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything .
15 But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you .
16 Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having .
17 Ooh right , okay , well there 'll be another one going out to you for the , I think the Saturday night er hotel
18 They will give the theatre back to us for the opening and then we will give it back to them for the Summer during which they should solve the problem . ’
19 So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know .
20 Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins .
21 Er few problems with the job before we started or during the job er , come back to us for a six so far so we have to What we will do is drop them down and Er another problem with the job is we 're about three week 's behind er arranged for them to come in on Monday .
22 If by then you 're not completely hooked ( We know you will be ! ) then we insist that you send it back to us for an immediate full refund .
23 They will give the theatre back to us for the opening and then we will give it back to them for the Summer during which they should solve the problem . ’
24 erm I 'd we we have a number of suggestions er a gentleman over there about the er body building was that reported back to you for a start and did you discuss this ? erm you know I I really thought it sort of modern management techniques if there applied here like team working net working it 's it this way you could actually begin to perform as the committee at the moment your the shadowy figures in the background .
25 Right back to you for a bugler ?
26 Well , Norman , we 'll come back to you for a final comment .
27 You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one .
28 He 's not very worried about the law yet , because there 's no reason they should get on to him for a while .
29 We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody .
30 ‘ Can I hang on to it for a while ? ’
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