Example sentences of "[verb] for [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 2 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 4 | looking for one for the |
| 5 | He says we 've had wide and varied enquiries — especially from London-based purchasers looking for something for the weekend — something he can tell his friends ’ Well actually I live in a turreted folly in the Cotswolds ! ’ … |
| 6 | " She looking for someone for a job ? " |
| 7 | So far , I have a car driver and a motor cyclist and I 'm looking for someone for the bus and train , and possibly taxi . |
| 8 | Now , if there 's nothing more I can do for you for a while , I 'll leave you to rest . ’ |
| 9 | That 'll do for you for the lodger . |
| 10 | Vincente caddied for him for a while but it was an awkward role for a big brother . |
| 11 | Last time Roger was outside waiting for me for an hour and a half |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 13 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 14 | Once a chick bred in captivity can fly — at the age of eight weeks or so — it can be taken from its parents and released to hunt for itself for a month . |
| 15 | ‘ A lot of people looked for you for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 17 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 18 | And then there was all this problem of who was going to pay for him for the rest of his life because he was a vegetable . ’ |
| 19 | I bought myself a mug of tea at the counter in order to pay for something for a change , then I sat and waited for Kathleen . |
| 20 | Now I supported Prescott , I must say I voted for him for the er for deputy leader , right , but I think he 's wrong , right , on this particular issue , this compromise that he 's floating and I think it should be dropped . |
| 21 | It is time we voted for ourselves for a change . |
| 22 | Lot number ninety Lot number ninety , the horn box the horn box and cover is showing for you for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds any more at one hundred pounds ? |
| 23 | A day 's journey with small children , or alternatively getting someone to care for them for the day , is not easy . |
| 24 | So that was the sort of stuff that did for you for a couple of weeks before Christmas . |
| 25 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 26 | I waited for him for an hour , outside his half-built apartment building . |
| 27 | ‘ But it means you work for me for the rest of your life to pay me back . ’ |
| 28 | The thing is you 've got to it 's it 's like Nigel , I mean , he works for my uncle erm and he had the other guy Mark working for him for a few years and then he employed Nigel , but Mark was n't a fully qualified plumber and Nigel was and he 's ooh I do n't know about I think he 's about nineteen or no he 's about twenty three I think , yeah |
| 29 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 30 | Let us get the great working for us for a change . ’ ’ |