Example sentences of "[vb past] for [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 2 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 3 | I asked for it on Wednesday , she 's gone me one , she put in this bag and |
| 4 | try and get some information on this they felt that they were confident that at the end of the day that erm , approval would be given but erm I I I asked for it in writing and they said we would n't be getting that . |
| 5 | 'E 's keen on 'er , and she seemed ti be fond of 'im till 'e asked for 'er in wedlock . ’ |
| 6 | Now erm all the gifts that you give at Confirmation the whole idea of Confirmation in well one of the main ideas of Confirmation is taking on board for yourself what your parents promised for you in baptism . |
| 7 | His only source of superiority is that Frye fagged for him at school . |
| 8 | ‘ The guy who scored for us at Wembley , Kjetil Rekdal , is mad about English football . |
| 9 | He had been about four years old , and although he was younger than my brother , they always got on very well together and were heartbroken when the time came for them to part . |
| 10 | They had reached the hilly avenues of Lisbon when it occurred to her that he could be worried about how she might behave when the time came for them to part . |
| 11 | I wonder what the stars predicted for them in February ? |
| 12 | It paid for it with cash of £4m and loan notes of £2.75m — i.e. a promise to pay the £2.75m four years later — and the payment was guaranteed by Ansbacher Bank . |
| 13 | Shortly after this he paid for it by cheque and on request signed a statement that property in the van was not to pass to him until the cheque was cleared . |
| 14 | The priest finally concludes that the sheepskin is properly his , as he paid for it in goods not services . |
| 15 | We prayed for him in June . |
| 16 | ‘ We could n't think where you were , ’ said my mother , ‘ we hunted for you for hours . ’ |
| 17 | Neff 's approach was to produce corporate performance charts of his firm 's most successful clients , indicating that their fortunes had been turned around by the strategic recruitment of executives headhunted for them by Spencer Stuart . |
| 18 | ‘ He worked for me during university holidays . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Did you tell Rex that Alan Dysart worked for you in Swindon during university vacations ? ’ |
| 20 | I called for him at Faber 's — ; which meant waiting downstairs either du côté de chez Swan or in the small waiting-room crowded with Faber books ready for dispatch — ; and we caught a train to Merstham from Victoria . |
| 21 | In a way it functioned for us like window shopping : a random five minute slice of a feature would enable us to decide whether to see the whole thing at the Shoals , Princess or Majestic in Florence , when it resurfaced there . |
| 22 | THIS SEASON of violent contrasts started for me on TV-am where , as part of the Christmassy Victorianisation of After Nine , I sat on the sofa in bustle and bare bosom ( well , upper bosom anyway ) and suitably black-lace-becapped to be a Fin de Siecle ( nineteenth variety ) agony aunt . |
| 23 | Aunt Emily sent for her after breakfast . |
| 24 | She loves those lacy things you know by and do you remember I I bought for them for Christmas I bought her a tissue box with that beautiful lace cover ? |
| 25 | And the kitchen and bathroom he did for me in Teddington and ! |
| 26 | ‘ Remember what Alan Taylor did for us at West Ham in 1975 ? |
| 27 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 28 | Hare did admit to Ian Wright , who caddied for Seve Ballesteros , that he would feel intimidated if Wright carried for him at La Manga . |
| 29 | He was never found , though they searched for him on elephants while we returned to the palace . |
| 30 | And Holly was gone , moving to where a space waited for him beside Poshekhonov . |