Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are interested in our products but are unable to visit us please phone or fax us for our mail order lists . |
| 2 | Claudia Arbuthnot was never cross with him or punished him for anything . |
| 3 | However , both TA and IT are relatively complicated to master and you re recommended to let someone else set them up or run them for you unless you are really eager to advance your computer expertise . |
| 4 | In this case , the student can write in pencil the words he is n't certain how to spell ; or underlines them for his own or the teacher 's later attention . |
| 5 | The HMI document The Curriculum from 5 to 16 suggests that ‘ all that pupils learn should be practical , and therefore relevant , in ways which enable them to build on it or use it for their own purposes in everyday life ’ . |
| 6 | My poor mother , I am sure , could n't determine whether to commend my prudence or berate me for my lack of romance . |
| 7 | They may take Abernethy , or leave it for their foot . |
| 8 | And so it considerably curtails the scope for morality , for it leads to such questions as : Why , if it is genetic factors that make people what they are , praise or blame them for what they do ? |
| 9 | It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember . |
| 10 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 11 | Mr Dorrell continued : ’ In the past the Inland Revenue has , I am told , felt able to accept that the allowances paid to volunteers did no more than reimburse them for their actual expenses . |
| 12 | A look that claimed her for his own and spoke of a love that would bind them together for always . |
| 13 | There was a coldness about the house that showed it for what it was — a rental for two people whose life together had hardly begun . |
| 14 | The word ‘ feminist ’ , for instance , is a disputed term even within the group of people that claim it for themselves . |
| 15 | ‘ I ca n't even remember the name of the horse that won it for me in Italy , but I will always have a special spot for Nicer , ’ he said . |
| 16 | ‘ It was the razor blades that did it for me , ’ he reckons . |
| 17 | As with values , it is probably best to assess your opponent 's objectives rather than to ask him for them . |
| 18 | If the animals had in any proper sense rights , we should no more be entitled to put them to death without a fair trial … than to torture them for our amusement . |
| 19 | Then Deutschlandsender made their announcement yesterday that Hess had flown the coop and I think that clinched it for them . |
| 20 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 21 | It may be extremely hard for your employer to justify a poor grading at assessment time when earlier in the year you received a letter from the chairman specifically thanking and praising you for your efforts . |
| 22 | ‘ One is always grateful for that kind of comic genius who takes your script and plays it for everything that 's in it , ’ as Shaffer told me . |
| 23 | He rang her just before lunch and recommended us for their pets . |
| 24 | Mobutu resisted pressure from Western governments to enter into a power-sharing arrangement with Tshisekedi and attacked them for their " flagrant interference " ; he understood , he said , " that Western aid is mixed with all sorts of threats and blackmail " . |
| 25 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 26 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 27 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 28 | I moved some girls into the middle and asked them for their guesses . |
| 29 | ‘ We wish , my brother and I , we wish you to take some of our money and to invest it for us in — in such places where you invest your own . ’ |
| 30 | Texas Instruments , having recognised the wider implications of producing high performance processors , has attached great importance to its C compilers and produces them for their TMS320C25 and TMS320C3x . |