Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 4 | Laurence Gilliam of the BBC in London arranged and produced these impressive programmes and it was my pleasure and privilege to work with him for the Vancouver region for several years running . |
| 5 | And I want to work with you for a new Kenya . ’ |
| 6 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 7 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 8 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 9 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 10 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 13 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 14 | I would like to talk to you for a minute or two . ‘ |
| 15 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 16 | I wanted to talk to you for the whole journey , but I could n't let you know that , so I just sat there thinking , I 've got to touch her … |
| 17 | She 's going to look after them for a little while |
| 18 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 19 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 21 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 22 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 23 | Call the dog to you , and encourage it to walk with you for a distance before repeating the process . |
| 24 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 25 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 26 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
| 27 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 28 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 29 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 30 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |