Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten . |
| 2 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 3 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 5 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 6 | he said , I find mine just the same , I 've dealt with them for years but as soon you want anything although , I must say , with the break in we 've got on alright did n't we ? |
| 7 | Then you bring your ladder that you 've brought with you for the job and you put it up leaning on this windowsill , so that essentially if that 's the windowsill the end of that table there , it 's up to here you see with the top of the ladder just above the windowsill . |
| 8 | I 'm not being facile , but we came from the sea , we 've dumped on it for years and it looks like it 's getting its own back . |
| 9 | So you know once you 've gone to them No once you 've gone to them for advertising you ca n't go to that person for something else . |
| 10 | I 've finished with him for ever . |
| 11 | I 've worked with him for nearly two years . |
| 12 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 13 | ‘ So you 've chased after me for nothing . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've lived with it for long enough , but I did n't get away with it this year and I 'm running out of time , ’ said the 26-year-old European champion , who needed a pain-killing injection before the race . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We have heard of you for many years . |
| 17 | Patronage by the Church has been part of the musical world for centuries , and in the past many of the greatest composers have depended upon it for their livelihood . |
| 18 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 19 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 20 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 21 | Other well known names who have come to us for instruction are British Telecom , Hewlett Packard , Lucas Aerospace and John Lewis at Milton Keynes . |
| 22 | We have applied to them for bonding and may choose to move down that route instead . |
| 23 | He is too relaxed for all the questions with which he is being bombarded , and full of wonder at how golfers such as Nicklaus and Watson have coped with it for all these years . |
| 24 | Before the new names can go in the pot , the ones that have remained in it for the two years have to come out so , after a brief introduction by the chairman of the trustees and the vicar , the three keyholders leave the room to go next door to the church where the chest is kept . |
| 25 | The balance I have put towards something for us both — a new continental quilt for our bed here — and I got a king sized one , as JOHN always seems to get it all , but this may be big enough to let me hang on to my side . |
| 26 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 27 | Be extra careful with new employees who have worked for you for eight weeks or less . |
| 28 | Douglas Kinnaird , of PA Consultants and one of the UK 's top headhunters , makes the point that quite often women do n't realise how hard promotion is to get and that men have worked for it for months , if not years . |
| 29 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 30 | Two men have stood by him for most of his career — Homer Scott and Ian Ferguson — and it was heartening for Homer that Pat was able to ride Glitter Grey to victory in the Governors Cup at Down Royal . |