Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 2 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 3 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 4 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 5 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 6 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 7 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 8 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 9 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 10 | Our older son and his wife came to live with us for four months , between University and his first job . |
| 11 | I was so glad that the ‘ family ’ came to stay with me for a change . |
| 12 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 13 | She came to rely on me for help and support and I am very , very upset . |
| 14 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 15 | Our leaders lost much support because they rejected the peace dividend policy of the delegate conference year after year and failed to campaign for it for years before 9 April , 1992 . |
| 16 | Seventeenth August — visited No. 4 Commando ( French Troop ) and decided to remain with them for a few days , due mainly to their hospitality and the change of scene . |
| 17 | Randy Sherwood , who was known as the Cock of the South , had a handicap of two and was so glamorous with his long , long legs and curly hair that fell perfectly into shape , that girls clamoured to groom for him for nothing . |
| 18 | I offered to go with her for company and safety really , since it was dangerous to go out alone in conditions like that . |
| 19 | On the same day that Bathsheba arrived home , Mr Boldwood went to apologize to her for speaking so violently the last time he had seen her . |
| 20 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 21 | ‘ Because of that , the superstitious say I met the fairies and went to live with them for nine years . |
| 22 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 23 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 24 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 25 | This was a most amazing act ; the Chewong continued to talk about it for weeks . |
| 26 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 27 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 28 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 29 | We explained that we had to do without them for the most part — and be tankful for the older ones and the women . |
| 30 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |