Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | More generally Pazzi 's introduction calls down fire and brimstone on those who damage works of art or try to appropriate them for their own collections . |
| 2 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 3 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 4 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Felicitations from him who must worship you from afar and longs to have you for his own . ’ |
| 6 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 7 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 8 | He was quite aware of her marital designs on him , but she was very much part of the life which he had rejected , even if she refused to recognise that fact , and tried to reclaim him for it . |
| 9 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 10 | Vass spread his long fingers over the chair arms and seemed to contemplate them for a moment . |
| 11 | That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food . |
| 12 | Alex stomped by and declined to join them for an early morning cocktail . |
| 13 | ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway . |
| 14 | The priest whom she eventually accosted took one look at her , an ill-proportioned , arrogant child with cheap clips in her gaudy hair , and started grilling her for an address . |
| 15 | You 'd passed judgement on my morals and decided to punish me for something you could only have had the vaguest idea about . |
| 16 | The police took one look at him and decided to leave him for later . |
| 17 | They had enough material for a book and decided to offer it for publication under the title Møn : The Island of Pure Friendship . |
| 18 | I wondered , if Jean-Claude were there , why the child had not said so and gone to fetch him for me ? |
| 19 | Frankie appeared as I was filling the kettle and offered to do it for me . |
| 20 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 21 | He was afraid she might see him sticking out and start taking him for granted or make unwomanly advances . |
| 22 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes they see you in the street and start searching you for no reason . |
| 24 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 25 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 26 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 27 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 29 | Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years . |
| 30 | And to say thank you for that lovely picnic . |