Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 2 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 3 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |
| 4 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been wanting to do it for years . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been wanting to tell you for ages , but I could n't while you were so worried . |
| 8 | ‘ I am writing to thank you for a lovely holiday near Brno in Czechoslovakia at the Hotel Form . |
| 9 | I am writing to thank you for the Morrissey article . |
| 10 | I am writing to thank you for the coverage you gave my launch as the No More Pylons candidate ( Echo March 26 ) . |
| 11 | But I ca n't help feeling that this is strictly a US product and that no attempt has been made to localize it for UK or European markets . |
| 12 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 13 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 14 | ‘ Not if you 're going to use it for lies , propaganda and distortion , ’ said the Press Liaison Officer . |
| 15 | Because if we 're going to use it for the ragtime and er |
| 16 | A hundred wide , by three it depends what you 're going to use it for . |
| 17 | Erm if they 're going to charge you for your water by how much you use , they do n't just charge you twenty when you 've got your hose running . |
| 18 | Your hose pipe twenty gallons a minute , well you ran that for ten minutes say , so that was two hundred gallons we 're going to charge you for there , and your six gallons a minute appliance here , you ran that for forty minutes , right ? |
| 19 | That 's a gallon per minute times forty minutes then cancel with gallons so they 're going to charge you for two hundred and forty gallons . |
| 20 | Wallering Remember Christopher Robin , his wise old house spelt his name Wal We 're going to name you for the elms at the foot of the garden . |
| 21 | ‘ If we find enough we 're going to have them for dinner tonight . ’ |
| 22 | I was n't there at the time and I 'm damned if they 're going to top me for your brothers . |
| 23 | They 're not getting anything out of me , they 're having to pay me for my body . ’ |
| 24 | They 're hoping to get it for this being an international airport . |
| 25 | Exactly , they 're trying to screw me for every single penny they can get out of me |
| 26 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 28 | It explains , I think rather vividly , why the Library overspent last year , because we have no idea in advance what the publishers are going to charge us for journals . |
| 29 | So I think you need to be clear on what you are going to use them for . |
| 30 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |