Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 2 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 3 | The standing back approach Someone phones you for a price for a project . |
| 4 | If someone asks you for a tale , tell them you 're learning the story of the Dwarf and the Firewood . |
| 5 | A case of bread and circuses , and it 's about time someone said it for the rave generation . |
| 6 | Nothing prepared me for the reality of A wing . |
| 7 | … nothing prepared her for the angry letter she received from the Duke of Edinburgh soon afterwards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then |
| 10 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 11 | Nobody said anything for a moment , the two of them standing there , summing each other up . |
| 12 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 13 | ‘ But nothing prepares you for the blinding flash of flares and the noise of the thundercrackers as you run on to the field . |
| 14 | Few were even prepared to try to mediate , none to risk anything for the king and the Despensers . |
| 15 | Has anybody read it for the first time for this course ? |