Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 2 | They 'll want to see her for sure . ’ |
| 3 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 4 | He must need to know it for other reasons . |
| 5 | When you open the file , a file handle ( an integer number ) is returned by the interpreter and you will need to store it for future use . |
| 6 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 7 | The rest of the team is going to miss her and and we 'd like to thank her for all her hard work ( including proof-reading ! ) and now we need a volunteer to join us ! |
| 8 | We would also like to thank him for all the hard work he put into Lee Green . |
| 9 | Waterlife Research Industries have kindly replaced the test kit , even though they were not at fault and I would like to thank them for this . |
| 10 | ‘ But I would like to thank you for one thing — ’ |
| 11 | Mr Chairman , er , I 'd like to thank you for those nice words of introduction but I am particularly delighted as I am a lifelong member of the G M B , of almost thirty five years ' standing , due to my employment with British Gas and my long membership with the Labour Party . |
| 12 | But I enjoyed your tte — tte with Naomi in that choochy little patisserie , although I 'd like to smack her for one or two of her remarks . ’ |
| 13 | I had to get one bag I did n't like to ask her for two . |
| 14 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 15 | When I tried printing pictures with plenty of tones and shades , some faint vertical bars did appear , but most people probably wo n't want to use it for heavy graphics output . |
| 16 | And I did return to nurse them for two years |
| 17 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 18 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |
| 19 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 20 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 21 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 22 | You know they could have shot me for that . |
| 23 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 24 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 25 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 26 | Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material . |
| 27 | I would n't have seen you for another hour . |
| 28 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 29 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 30 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |