Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Iain MacPherson , I 'm arresting you for the … ‘ |
| 32 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 33 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 34 | I 'll be needing it for the rest of the day , ’ Bishop said . |
| 35 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Joseph Shill , I am arresting you for the murder of your wife , Maria Shill , at Windsor , on 19th December . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ Miles Engado , I am arresting you for the — ’ |
| 38 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 39 | Amid the disillusionment felt by some , that the minority of farmers are spoiling it for the rest in not keeping the environment clean , one manufacturer at least , hopes not dampened by the weather , felt there was room for optimism . |
| 40 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 41 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 42 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 43 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 44 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 45 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 46 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 47 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 48 | The repeated attacks of this last disease were to trouble him for the rest of his life . |
| 49 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 50 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 51 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 52 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 53 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 54 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
| 55 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 56 | O over this election , what you 've got ta do is every night , is if you 're interested is watch it for the first quarter of an hour of the news every night . |
| 57 | even though she 's getting it for the technology . |
| 58 | The Wantage white horses swim club are off to the Palace tomorrow … that 's the Crystal one … world number one Mark Foster is coaching them for the day … |
| 59 | He 's doing it for the challenge . |
| 60 | No well she had this special thing so it 's done the trick so she has n't worn it yet though , I think she 's doing it for the wedding ai n't she ? |