Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A surly man stepped from a trailer doorway and asked me for money . |
| 2 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 3 | Then went to the Citizen 's Advice Bureau ( CAB ) at Wembley , as my husband had suggested , and asked them for information about how to join a union . |
| 4 | Syl 's mother disapproved of this most bitterly and rebuked me for waste . |
| 5 | Sir Haydn 's family intended to seek an Abandonment Order for the line and sell it for scrap . |
| 6 | After abandoning an appeal against the decision , Barclays agreed to reinstate the women and compensate them for loss of earnings . |
| 7 | We are most interested in the idea of networking , sharing skills such as translation and using them for distance learning . ’ |
| 8 | But , increasingly , their own shops were also a highly successful means of serving this end ; many young couples were buying the lightweight fabrics , because they were so cheap , and using them for furnishing . |
| 9 | Shorten the legs of that ugly iron bedstead , hack off the top and bottom rails and send them for salvage . |
| 10 | Elia Kazan kept the cameras rolling and caught it for posterity . |
| 11 | If you already own an Action Replay cart , David , we 'll always take it back and swap it for summit or other . |
| 12 | It is the learning process itself which is capable of bringing power to those who feel themselves to be powerless , and galvanising them for action on their own terms . |
| 13 | Cos what I 'm doing , I put them on a series and keeping them for revision . |
| 14 | So the bizzies come round here and bust me for possession . |
| 15 | It was really done with much relish , and to prove his efficiency in all branches of His Majesty 's Navy and Fishing Fleets , Lord Shelley went into Uxbridge , bought the best cod he could find , and insisted on cooking it himself and serving it for dinner . |
| 16 | During this fabulous weekend , we cut out our material , linings and so on and prepared them for sewing . |
| 17 | If that was the case then the caveman 's body would need to be ready to dive into the bush , or run after the rabbit , catch it , and kill it for food . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , very few people will appreciate just how much time , effort and sheer innovative thinking has gone into making the engine look similar to how it would look had we merely pressure washed the outside and mounted it for display . |
| 19 | If you physically vacate your home and let it for profit — perhaps because you have decided to live permanently with a friend — under tax law , the property would be treated as an investment and subject to certain exemptions would be assessed for CGT when it was sold . |
| 20 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 21 | It is sufficient here to note that culture does not appear to affect the way people rank goals , with the proviso that these are Western concepts , anyway , and translating them for comparison into certain cultures is fraught with difficulties ; often there is no local word available . |
| 22 | Mechanical filtration is anything , like filter wood , used to strain and collect particles and hold them for removal . |
| 23 | Webb 's Patent Sewer Lamps , which extracted gas from the sewers below the streets and burned it for street lighting . |
| 24 | We should review the resources we have but do n't use and use them for mission . |
| 25 | And once , as she filmed in WPc uniform in London 's Shepherd 's Bush market , a woman who had been mugged thought she was the real Bill and begged her for help . |
| 26 | When at the end his brothers poured out their guilt and begged him for forgiveness , he replied with the words , ‘ Fear not , for am I in the place of God ? ’ |
| 27 | Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important . |
| 28 | Not since the demolition gangs had moved into that area south of the river to knock down the old tenements and clear it for redevelopment . |
| 29 | That can mean only that the common agricultural policy is to be reformed in such a way as to take money from the United Kingdom and give it for cohesion to countries outside . |
| 30 | I just wondered what your response to it was , seeing as er what you 're doing is getting information to which you 're not entitled , and selling it for money to other people . |