Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 2 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 3 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 4 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 5 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 6 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 7 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 8 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 9 | And Sinatra punished him for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 11 | ‘ We had it fitted out in the States , changed it for the case provided by the Pentagon just before take-off last night . ’ |
| 12 | He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage . |
| 13 | Dirichlet , appalled by this , grabbed the page from Gauss and treasured it for the rest of his life . |
| 14 | They have accepted us and used us for the furthering of the Kingdom here in Taquaral . |
| 15 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 16 | Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing . |
| 17 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 18 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 19 | Then he ignored her for the rest of the evening . |
| 20 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 21 | Middlesex , who fined him around £750 for a foul-mouthed outburst earlier in the season , immediately dropped him for the game against Hampshire . |
| 22 | Two of his greatest performances came in 1979 , with 5 for 38 in the World Cup final and 6 for 29 in the Gillette final for Somerset , although both times Richards pipped him for the match award . |
| 23 | Time was the theme that fired his heart as a young student and affected him for the rest of his life . |
| 24 | But again Hal believed it for the truth . |
| 25 | they were having one here as well and erm they booked it for the day and they were staying there overnight , cos they were , they 've got a house and they were gon na let guests stay at their house and while they stayed up there and then |
| 26 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 27 | We all do things together and it lifted us for the game on Saturday . |
| 28 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
| 29 | I had to admit to myself that that threw me for the minute . |
| 30 | Lynda Clifford did a sponsored aerobic session , Sue Tons and her family took part in the Great North Walk , Cycle Ride and Run , and Gary Bainbridge joined them for the Run . |