Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's my humble belief you only did it to hurt me , oh yes , spit on the bourgeois , épater the middleclass , oh aye , get your own back on Mr Grant and me for our fitted carpets and crinoline toiletroll covers when you grew up on berr linoleum in a singelenn' in Bridgeton . |
| 2 | ‘ Blaming me for your own inadequacy . ’ |
| 3 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 4 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , it 's got nothing to do with business , ’ Alison replied with a laugh that ever so gently reprimanded me for my mercantile preoccupations . |
| 6 | My father gave it to me for my seventeenth birthday . |
| 7 | At an earlier meeting , Bobby Lawrence had asked me for my initial reaction to the management buying the company . |
| 8 | Aunt Anna gave it to me for my tenth birthday . |
| 9 | I started siding stuff then , an' sweeping an' doing ; and I expected he 'd begin a calling me for my idle ways . |
| 10 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 11 | This capacity of language to crystallize and stabilize me for my own subjectivity is retained |
| 12 | The cherry berets dragged the bewildered old montagnard away with a brusqueness which inspired no confidence in me for his future prospects . |
| 13 | Each of them seeks to use me for his own ends . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They 'll thank me for it one day : pelvic control is useful when you 're having a baby . ’ |
| 15 | Do you a lot of good , you 'll thank me for it one day . |
| 16 | By and large , the above are ‘ natural source ’ materials , with little or no attempt to balance the NPK content , and you will need to take this into account when you use them for whatever particular bias they give . |
| 17 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 18 | Mr Dorrell continued : ’ In the past the Inland Revenue has , I am told , felt able to accept that the allowances paid to volunteers did no more than reimburse them for their actual expenses . |
| 19 | I should like to thank them for their outstanding contribution to BP , extending over many years . |
| 20 | Rather : ‘ The business interests of the nation as a whole are subordinated to those of certain sectional interests that usurp control of the national resources and use them for their private gain . ’ |
| 21 | Certain names wish to withdraw these funds from Lloyd 's , as not being within the terms governing their premium trust funds , in order to use them for their personal benefit . |
| 22 | But none of the larger firms has done so yet , so the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that either they prefer to live dangerously or they still do n't believe that anyone would actually go after them for their personal assets . |
| 23 | Durkheim took for granted the existence of nation states ; indeed he emphasized the role of the state as the ‘ organ of moral discipline ’ , and the importance of national education as a moral education of the young generation , preparing them for their future tasks in the collective life of the nation . |
| 24 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 25 | Lloyd spoilt it , of course , with an unbeaten 60 that helped his team to 190 all out , but having dismissed them for their lowest total in years England had to feel confident . |
| 26 | This emerged as the Butt Report and was immediately rejected out of hand by the incumbent Commander-in-Chief , Bomber Command , but not so by the Army and Navy to whom the report had been leaked and who were bent on carving Bomber Command up between them for their desperate needs in the Western Approaches and in the war in the desert . |
| 27 | We have enjoyed the loyal and industrious support of our employees throughout and I thank them for their individual contributions to the year 's achievements . ’ |
| 28 | It will improve gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow ( unsecured creditors will regard it as similar to share capital ) but the holders will expect a higher yield to compensate them for their higher risk , although this should be less than that expected for preference share capital . |
| 29 | Students will be expected to have a thorough knowledge of them for their first grading exam . |
| 30 | However , a letter is sent out to newly qualified drivers advising they have a qualified instructor with them for their first motorway trips . |