Example sentences of "[conj] you [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , like Microsoft , WordPerfect UK would rather that you contacted them for an upgrade . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 5 | The one that you bought her for Christmas . |
| 6 | Just as you have a routine for looking after your skin , so you need one for looking after your hair . |
| 7 | We do n't mind you giving us rubbish , provided you charges us for it as rubbish . ’ |
| 8 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 9 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 10 | And you get nothing for it . |
| 11 | And you get it for only £949 plus VAT . |
| 12 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 13 | And you visit them for there was one time we visit them for fourteen day daily but I do n't think they do it now . |
| 14 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 15 | If your fuel bill debt is in the name of your landlord , and you pay him for your electricity or gas , you should let your fuel supplier and local council know this is the case . |
| 16 | Yes , every now and then the temptation to do something sort of very cool and very sort of ten point Univers and you do it for a bit , and you 've done it and then you use some proper faces instead . |
| 17 | put this program in and you swap it for this er map disk , then it comes up , you tell it where you are , where you going to and it works your route out |
| 18 | Yeah , like somebody else , like , you 're walking down the street , like , you 're in a house and , and you check it for a minute and you 're like |
| 19 | I want so much for you , and you want nothing for yourselves . ’ |
| 20 | You wanted a man , and you wanted him for good — because after all , you were getting on then , were n't you ? |
| 21 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 22 | I suspected it last night , and you confirmed it for me when I touched you in the lift on the way up to the restaurant tonight . |
| 23 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 24 | Until you see them for yourself , in fact , it 's difficult to conceive just how magnificent they really are . |
| 25 | These are delicious by themselves , but if you use them for Devils on Horseback ( see p112 ) your cocktail party will surely be an enormous success . |
| 26 | ‘ I just came to see if you had something for dinner , ’ she said . |
| 27 | But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan . |
| 28 | ‘ If you 've nothing for me , why the hell did you imply you had ? |
| 29 | If you imagine it for more than two or three minutes , you start crying . ’ |
| 30 | or though you could just like , if you got something for say ten ninety nine and it was fifteen pounds and you got something else as well |