Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 2 | What possible reason could a sane man have for thanking her for an evening that had never happened ? |
| 3 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 4 | Rachel Still , 23 — who was living with a boyfriend in Wilmslow , Cheshire — drove off with husband Phillip after meeting him for a talk . |
| 5 | After meeting him for the first time , Vincent thought that he must be wealthy . |
| 6 | She took the boxed flower and then , after holding it for a moment and wondering what to do with it , laid it down alongside her place setting . |
| 7 | After studying her for a moment in silence , he added , ‘ What possessed you to take off your shoes and come charging out of the alley like that ? ’ |
| 8 | A MAN shot dead his teenage daughter after mistaking her for a burglar . |
| 9 | After watching them for a while I suggested that they might try to keep most numbers constant and change just one . |
| 10 | Joseph and his mother , after watching them for a moment , turned and strolled away to inspect the dead calf . |
| 11 | Mechanical things were not her strong point ; after watching her for a couple of minutes , Melissa could stand it no longer . |
| 12 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 13 | You got ta do anything for the kids parties this year or no ? |
| 14 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 15 | He can still settle or ask the court to award damages on the old basis of including something for the future risk . |
| 16 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 17 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 18 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 19 | Similarly , ‘ vocational ’ training was regarded more as a means of making prisoners work hard than of training them for a task to which they were individually suited . |
| 20 | Finally , one other began to use heroin almost by default in that he and a friend bought heroin with the specific aim of selling it for a profit . |
| 21 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 22 | Guillaume was also disturbed by Modi 's unpredictable and unbusinesslike behaviour : ‘ the mere idea of asking him for a signature , which would have legalized a relationship , seemed ridiculous to me ’ . |
| 23 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 24 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 26 | It 's just a matter of hoarding them for a discount on your Sovereign holiday . |
| 27 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 28 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 29 | While BT has the right to terminate the deal between years three and six , it also has the option of extending it for a further three years . |
| 30 | ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse . |