Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | My regard for your daughter has in no way diminished ; I still want her for my wife . |
| 32 | I do n't know what it was , but I instantly fingered her for an obvious goer , sack-artist , dick-idolator , and so on . |
| 33 | This season , with only a few weeks gone , I confidently nominate him for another award — worst piece of man-management this season ! |
| 34 | I liked the idea of other people feeling sorry for me , even though I also despised them for it , because I was n't worth their sympathy and that made them fools . |
| 35 | Not many spoke out against sending the Taskforce — and I also admired him for taking over the Liberal Party in very difficult circumstances . |
| 36 | May I also thank him for agreeing to visit Rugby and Kenilworth ? |
| 37 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 38 | I really like him for all those synthesisers . |
| 39 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 40 | No I really got it for the er card holder . |
| 41 | The choice of hi-hats and cymbals is excellent , and I often use it for programming percussion . ’ |
| 42 | I even meet him for dinner from time to time . |
| 43 | Her fringe is so long , I sometimes mistake her for Rolf Harris . |
| 44 | I almost hate you for talking to me like this , when you know how you 've ruined my life ! |
| 45 | ‘ I never thanked you for taking me out today , ’ she said quietly , looking up at him . |
| 46 | " I never use it for hunting , " he said as he wrestled with the mechanism . |
| 47 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 48 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 49 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 50 | ‘ I never took you for a person who constantly changes her mind , Fran . ’ |
| 51 | I appreciate you 're a very clever woman , but then I never took you for a fool . |
| 52 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 53 | Oh I never cook them for twenty , twenty to twenty five minutes it would be a disaster . |
| 54 | But I never wanted it for myself , in spite of what everyone thought . |
| 55 | ‘ I never forget it for a minute , ’ said Gabriel . |
| 56 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 57 | I ca n't shake a lingering vision of her straining eagerly against Casey , and I half blame her for it as if it were true . |
| 58 | When the registration forms came through , she apparently mistook them for election bumf and threw them away . |
| 59 | A good little program , even if you only want it for its entertainment value . |
| 60 | Harriet walked home wondering why she had not organised something of this sort before and marvelling at Mrs Rafferty 's complete acceptance of her own role in the community , one in which she obviously took it for granted that she herself had no need or right to ‘ a bit of a break ’ . |