Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] 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 | And put them your side since we found that I did them for you . |
| 5 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , you 're a bigger fool than I took you for . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 9 | I knew she might get it wrong , so I spelled it for her , ’ Paul says . |
| 10 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 14 | I do n't want that to happen to my daughter so I smacked her for stealing and lying . ’ |
| 15 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 24 | The one that you bought her for Christmas . |
| 25 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 26 | It 's a luxury though , I mean you know , you do n't need it , the fact that we got one for Christmas it was very nice , but |
| 27 | ‘ We were so good for so long that we took it for granted . |
| 28 | I was glad to be able to say that we had something for them in return — we were bringing a distinguished visitor in the person of George Turner , a Llangollen stationmaster in BR days , before the line was closed . |
| 29 | We both talk of love but those two were smarter than we took them for . |
| 30 | ( Incidentally , the papers give Kerslake 's transfer fee as 450,000 — that 's 50,000 less than we bought him for . ) |