Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 2 | I asked her for help — I wanted to go back to Scotland ! |
| 3 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 4 | And my brothers used to ride it , so I used to ride it and I rode it for miles ! |
| 5 | So I got them for Rob Chewchocks Chewchocks So you did n't get any of these did you ? |
| 6 | Well I do n't want everybody to start well I got it for christmas really . |
| 7 | I invited her for tea . |
| 8 | The facts are as I reported them for FARMERS WEEKLY on Apr 27 , 1990 . |
| 9 | I used it for areas hard to reach with chisel and mallet , and expect that when carving delicate work it has the advantage of not disturbing the workpiece with sudden strikes . |
| 10 | In the subsequent show report , I proclaimed that it was love at first sight and when I heard that a new model was in the offing which would , the company told me , prove to be their most eye-catching to date , I pestered them for weeks until they sent me one for review . |
| 11 | Later she said : ‘ I think I ate him for breakfast . |
| 12 | Later that evening I joined them for dinner , sharing a few tins of Compo and three bottles of French cider . |
| 13 | I signed him for Middlesbrough , and I jumped at the chance to sign him again here . |
| 14 | I thanked him for dinner and said how much I 'd enjoyed myself . |
| 15 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 16 | I kept it for years . |
| 17 | At first I took them for Maria 's , though it seemed strange that she should be going down to the beach at that time . |
| 18 | ‘ I took you for Adam , for he 's gone down Mountsorrel to fetch in some supplies . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on . |
| 20 | ‘ The one I gave you for Christmas ? ’ |
| 21 | Well I bought them for Amanda and she was doing Romeo and Juliet . |
| 22 | Well I bought them for Amanda and she was doing Romeo and Juliet . |
| 23 | I bought it for £25 plus £3.10 for the tax and insurance from a taxi driver who had abandoned it at Middlesbrough station with a blown head gasket . |
| 24 | I bought it for £3.00 — a bargain , in spite of its ragged cover and broken spine . |
| 25 | I bought it for Jay cos I do n't like you know what I mean ? |
| 26 | And I went down , I went somewhere else there was a few places I saw them so erm I said to , I said to Robert now you know those shirts , that shirt I bought you for Christmas ? |
| 27 | I DID IT FOR LOVE SAYS GUN RAIDER , 74 |
| 28 | I do n't know if I did it for Dad or Dad did it for me . |
| 29 | It was not at all my idea of pleasure , but I did it for Dana 's sake . |
| 30 | I did it for years . |