Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] for [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’ |
| 2 | But Henry II took into his own hands the county of Cornwall and all the Earl 's estates in England , Wales and Normandy and kept them to provide for his youngest son John , allowing only a small portion to go to Reginald 's daughters . |
| 3 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 4 | Go and look for some of your friends , the Stewpot fan club , and ask them to play for your precious team . |
| 5 | I want you to look for anything unusual — anything that could be due to a black hole . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I might get you to play for your own sake , because you enjoy the game . ’ |
| 7 | Especially since we 're going to have to stick up their taxes to deal with that confounded public-borrowing requirement which Norman Lamont ran up to bribe them to vote for us last time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And he has all the support I can give him to go for it next year . ’ |
| 9 | That was probably true , she realised , scrambling away from him to reach for her discarded clothes . |
| 10 | We would certainly like to him to come out of his own free will and that 's what we are trying to persuade him to do for his own good . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , she was a handsome woman and very competent and Modi persuaded her to pose for him nude . |
| 12 | Mr Dane ( 49 ) of Mountsandel Road is seeking an injunction allowing immediate reinstatement to his post and provision for him to care for his private patients . |
| 13 | I shall nevertheless oblige him to dance for his own good . |
| 14 | Who else would persuade me to care for his revolting Manrico , a creature who consumes at least two sheep hearts a day . |
| 15 | If people hear about the boy , he thought , perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep . |
| 16 | I cost him a lot in little things , but I know he wants me to ask for something big . |
| 17 | And yo you 're never gon na guess what he wants us to do for our final bit of course work ? |