Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 2 | She put the sheet of paper in an envelope , addressed it clearly , added the word ‘ Urgent ’ and carried it down to the office , where she left it for collection and received instead the original and the photostats of her article . |
| 3 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 4 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
| 5 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 7 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 8 | ‘ May I also put it on record that I love you for your mind ? ’ said Leo earnestly . |
| 9 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 10 | My recurring nightmare is that I circle it for ever , never able to get off . |
| 11 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 12 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 13 | Well , you 're a bigger fool than I took you for . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Only if you 're a bigger fool than I take you for . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 16 | I knew she might get it wrong , so I spelled it for her , ’ Paul says . |
| 17 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm . |
| 19 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 20 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 21 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 22 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 26 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 27 | ‘ They do say , ’ said Caspar thrillingly , ‘ that she pursued him for positively centuries , until he gave in , purely to get her out of his way . |
| 28 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 29 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 30 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |