Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 2 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 3 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 4 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 5 | ‘ Well , we 've had it for several weeks now . ’ |
| 6 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 7 | You 've set it for that rough track . ’ |
| 8 | Because no told me , because like I 've known her for all my life . |
| 9 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've known you for some years now . |
| 11 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 12 | If I go , If I could just to , to bring go , right back to a point you made much earlier coming off is exactly as you 've described it for most people |
| 13 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 14 | Premonitions have fascinated her for several years . |
| 15 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
| 16 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 17 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 18 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 19 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |
| 20 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 21 | However , suppose we have proved it for all finite P , Q , R. ( We will shortly do this . ) |
| 22 | Oxfam sell Crakapax ( they have ordered them for this Christmas and are waiting for deliveries ) which contain pre-cut cracker shapes in metallic foil . |