Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 2 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 3 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 4 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 5 | A decade ago , Kung Fu martial arts films were banned by Zambian cinemas after Kaunda attacked them for encouraging violence amongst youths . |
| 6 | BSDI 's motion to dismiss , which makes significant use of the Xerox/Apple precedent , claims USL 's failure to sue them for any patent , trade secret or copyright infringement , or even allege such a violation , taints their case . |
| 7 | But who can tell the damage we do to our writing voices when we roughly silence them for long stretches ? |
| 8 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 9 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 10 | No one asked me for any comment . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes Dad , she asked me for some help . ’ |
| 12 | They asked me for more money . |
| 13 | The leaflet accused the Moslem of kidnapping children and using them for ritual purposes . |
| 14 | Once again there are different ways in which such data are used , but all share the object of analysing the data anew , using them for different purposes than originally intended . |
| 15 | ‘ As long as nothing offensive is being said during Eircell mobile phone conversations , we have no power to stop anybody using them for any purpose , however peculiar . ’ |
| 16 | Another problem with doing these talks is working out at what level I should pitch them for different age groups . |
| 17 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 18 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 19 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 20 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 21 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 22 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 23 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 24 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 25 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 26 | As well for garden planting for show or cutting , thy make stately pot-grown plants , but only for one year as they are unable to find enough plant nutrients to sustain them for another year . |
| 27 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 28 | African hunting dogs ( opposite , bottom ) attack their prey in a pack , pursuing them for several miles if necessary . |
| 29 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 30 | One that has plagued me for some while . |