Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago . |
| 2 | The white boys admire the cheek of the black lad who nicks their Kentucky'n'chips , as well as wanting to beat him up for it , just as many of them secretly envy and try to emulate the black street style which at another level they experience as so invasive . |
| 3 | Been wanting to get them off for hours . |
| 4 | Are you going to stand them up for me Tim ? |
| 5 | If we 're going to try anything else for this restless leg , |
| 6 | ‘ They 're not going to shoot you just for trying . |
| 7 | But we are given an insight into the limitations of their cognitive capabilities when we observe a spider responding to a vibrating tuning fork by attempting to wrap it up for food . |
| 8 | Are you going to do it again for the seventy fifth ? |
| 9 | The , you may get by very nicely on very moderate physical ability in ordinary every day life because you can kind of order what you 're going to let yourself in for . |
| 10 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 11 | I was going to put it up for you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We are not going to put ourselves out for them . |
| 13 | ‘ Now , see here , they 're going to get it back for me , twenty-four hours tops . |
| 14 | Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’ |
| 15 | I 'm going to check you out for wire-taps . ’ |
| 16 | If I was n't able to admit it to some old woman I 'd never see again and who did n't matter a scrap to me , how was I going to face it out for the rest of my life ? |
| 17 | All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ? |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to throw you over for your sister . |
| 19 | She was going to show somebody round for that . |
| 20 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 21 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 22 | Could it be , for example , that you fiancé himself is starting to take you somewhat for granted and that by comparison his brother 's attention comes as rather welcome ? |
| 23 | The inescapable conclusion was that people were continually managing to think it up for themselves . |
| 24 | Leon threw the ball high , running for it himself and falling to catch it just for the pleasure of movement in sunshine . |
| 25 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 26 | He spoke hesitantly as though trying to work it out for himself . |
| 27 | But at this second exhibition Flatpattern 's ex-wife , who has been trying to track him down for alimony , appears , denounces him and the syndicate and mayhem breaks out . |
| 28 | ‘ The courtyard of a house in Delft ’ dates from the height of his career and will doubtless attract much attention from around the world ( est. £4.5–6.5 million ; $6.9–9.9 million ) although it is well-known that Christie 's have been trying to sell it privately for some time and the current estimate is regarded as quite strong . |
| 29 | ( ‘ They 're trying to fit me up for burglary this time ’ . |
| 30 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |