Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 2 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 3 | I do n't think that she wants anything for it |
| 4 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 5 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 6 | If someone asks you for a tale , tell them you 're learning the story of the Dwarf and the Firewood . |
| 7 | but then , on the other hand , I 'm not the sort of person who , I mean , if it 's something like that I can ask people , but I 've got friends who are quite cheeky , who will ask things , I mean , like if somebody does something for me , I 'm like , are you sure , are you sure , you do n't mind , and like , I 'm like over the top the other way . |
| 8 | We do n't mind you giving us rubbish , provided you charges us for it as rubbish . ’ |
| 9 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 10 | Miss Clapp sees the excuse notes and she takes me for English . |
| 11 | Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid . |
| 12 | Over and over he told himself : ‘ You failed her , and she hates you for it . |
| 13 | ‘ Mrs Morey says I 've got beautiful hair and she brushes it for me . ’ |
| 14 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 15 | Can he , after the row is made up and she has something for herself , be relinquished back to his car , knowing that she is not as greedy as he feared ? |
| 16 | ‘ If she asks you for money and shows you the letters , you can say that you did n't write them . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It does n't matter , if she does it for Nails . ’ |
| 18 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 19 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 20 | And he does his for a tenner . |
| 21 | I expect he is going to die in prison and he deserves it for what he has done . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 23 | Unless Bill 's gone to the shop and he brings them for her . |
| 24 | For years , the only person who believed that Alfred Molina would ever become a star was his wife , actress Jill Gascoine , and he credits her for his new-found success . |
| 25 | He gives me another burn and he has one for himself , blowing the smoke back into my mouth afterwards . |
| 26 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
| 27 | Once again , having selected the fax as the print device , you ‘ print ’ to it and it asks you for the address details . |
| 28 | People hear within the market place that , that we give good training , that we do develop people and it does attract good people to join us does n't it , whereas very few people want to join a company where you go nowhere , where you 're not given any training you stay in the same job for ten years and it does nothing for you . |
| 29 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
| 30 | It takes a year to organize this grand event and it says something for the racecourse when the only thing that went wrong yesterday was the weather . |