Example sentences of "[verb] to [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spoke to myself and I did n't listen : meaningless words on deaf ears , although they were true , and whoever I was meant them , and whoever I was speaking to knew them for the truth . |
| 2 | Indeed , the range of skills which actuaries develop nowadays are ideally suited to fitting them for corporate management in general . |
| 3 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 4 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 5 | but when we come to testing them for reading erm on the national curriculum to say level one , level two , level three |
| 6 | Because photographs and line artwork processed through a scanner are captured as bitmaps all the earlier comments about painting programs apply equally when it comes to re-sizing them for inclusion within a page . |