Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 2 | That 's the cardigan we bought you for Christmas |
| 3 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 4 | Just keep half the gram he lent you for your own use , and sell the rest . |
| 5 | Nigel is by no means the fool she took him for . |
| 6 | I was not proposing to ask her about her relationship , or lack of it , with Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson , or to what degree she blamed them for the unexpected and , at the time , unwelcome change in her life . |
| 7 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 8 | In July we asked you for your original ideas on alternative uses for our free filter matting — and offered a prize of a ‘ lifetime 's supply ’ of Crystal Clear airline . |
| 9 | His short-lived journalistic career encompassed the Highland News and then the Cumbernauld News , but after making no headway he swapped it for being a press officer with the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive . |
| 10 | I 'm not the fool he took me for ! ’ |
| 11 | Bruce , 47 , said she happily accepted the £125 he paid her for furniture , china and jewellery . |
| 12 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 13 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 14 | Later that evening I joined them for dinner , sharing a few tins of Compo and three bottles of French cider . |
| 15 | But I mean , you know yeah , during the war you got one for |
| 16 | In creative writing they often only half do the job you used them for : they say more or less what you mean , but not exactly . |
| 17 | I used one of your tapes you brought me for Christmas yesterday , very nice ! |
| 18 | For a fleeting moment he braced himself for confrontation , suspecting that they would want all three bags , but they left him his . |
| 19 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 20 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 21 | She had always pitied Kathleen and never liked Cormac , who had not tried to protect his sister , but now as she lay awake at night she saw him for what he was : a pitiable victim of his mother 's obsession . |
| 22 | ‘ The next day he presented himself for arrest . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Not in so many words , but until a month or two back he took it for granted that the business would come to him . |
| 24 | When the Lord made Sunday he meant it for a day of rest , a day of peace and quiet after the turmoil of the working week . |
| 25 | By chance he landed me for a swim at Moutsa down there . |
| 26 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 27 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 28 | As she hauled me up the stairs I braced myself for ‘ What the blazes , Bina ? |
| 29 | Feeling irritable and out of sorts , she took her tea into the workroom , hoping her carvings might be as therapeutic to her as to the people she carved them for . |
| 30 | Did you do anything with the erm names we gave you for nil absence ? |