Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 2 | Although the first step can be steroid injections , my GP referred me for surgery at Wanstead Hospital , south London . |
| 3 | Mummy bought it for Daddy really ! |
| 4 | The council passed it for allocation to youth activities . |
| 5 | He was surprised when the girl asked him for threepence . |
| 6 | If , for example , your boss asked you for ideas but each time you produced one he totally disagreed with it and rejected it out of hand then , assuming you found this unpleasant , your behaviour of putting forward ideas has been punished . |
| 7 | The guard invited us for tea . |
| 8 | They submitted a paper for publication and the editor sent it for reviews before deciding whether to publish it ask for revisions or reject it . |
| 9 | In 1974 , the fire brigade moved into new premises , rendering the existing building useless — so the local district council bought it for £36,000 and changed it into the block of 10 flats for elderly people . |
| 10 | He may have remembered St Mary 's Tyne Dock , where he freely sanctioned certain things that were illegal because the parish church council wanted them for purposes of devotion . |
| 11 | As concludes Marsillius Finicus , ‘ Live merrily , O my friends , free from cares , perplexity , anguish , grief of mind , live merrily , ( Heaven created you for mirth ) . |
| 12 | I remember when I lost a fountain-pen Mummy and Daddy gave me for Christmas : I prayed and prayed , and I never found it . ’ |
| 13 | We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks . |
| 14 | My father-in-law bought it for £26 , did it up and gave it to us for a wedding present in June 1969 . |
| 15 | She was abandoned by her mother when she was a year old , and her father gave her for adoption . ’ |
| 16 | They forgot El-ahrairah , for what use had they for tricks and cunning , living in the enemy 's warren and paying his price ? |
| 17 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 18 | I did n't say anything about this to my parents at the time , but the sight haunted me for years . |
| 19 | I sat eating my sandwiches in a grumpy sulk at the top of a mountain recently , while the pack of men surrounding a paraglider prepared him for take-off . |
| 20 | Instead of proceeding against " The Independent " for breach of confidence , the Government prosecuted it for contempt of court , committed by flouting the spirit of the injunction imposed on " The Guardian " . |
| 21 | Besides , I 've got the torch that Flick sent me for Christmas . ’ |
| 22 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 23 | A 0-0 draw , but one last attack won it for Town . |
| 24 | Jane Wrightson was arrested last year after officers matched her prints to stolen cheques , written by her in 1989 , after the bank sent them for analysis . |
| 25 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 26 | The penguin who had said the word warm shook her head sadly , and tho' the young penguin pestered her for days and days she heard no more about it . |
| 27 | Mother took him for lessons on the violin when he was five years old . |
| 28 | In Bishopgate Motor Finance Corporation v. Transport Brakes Ltd. ( 1949 C.A. ) someone who was hiring a car under a hire purchase agreement offered it for sale by auction at Maidstone market . |
| 29 | The teenager tapped into data systems across the world , including targets at the Financial Times and universities , using a £200 home computer his mother bought him for Christmas when he was 14 . |
| 30 | Trade bidding edged out the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in the conquest for the beautifully drawn ‘ Saint Liborious before the Virgin and Child ’ listed initially in the catalogue as Neapolitan school , later attributed in a saleroom notice to Giovanni Odazzi ; estimated at £1–2,000 , an American dealer won it for £4,500 ( $7,011 ) . |