Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susie smiled when I thanked her for putting up with me . |
| 2 | When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel . |
| 3 | When I saw him for the first time , I fell in love with him at once . |
| 4 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 5 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 6 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 7 | But when I asked him for permission he just agreed . |
| 8 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 9 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 10 | But I do n't think in gender terms at all when I interview someone for a job . |
| 11 | When I called them for their view , the spokesman for ‘ Countryside and Land matters ’ was somewhat iffy . |
| 12 | Oh when I do it for the week I 'm gon na get a twenty five pound voucher for Marks and Spencers . |
| 13 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
| 14 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 15 | When I press him for more names he suddenly gets the deer-caught-in-the-headlights look , and , deciding he 's already revealed too much , replies , ‘ Ah , just people . ’ |
| 16 | By and large , the above are ‘ natural source ’ materials , with little or no attempt to balance the NPK content , and you will need to take this into account when you use them for whatever particular bias they give . |
| 17 | ‘ When you telephone us for a quote , we will assign a member of staff to you , whom you can contact whenever you need to , without fear of being charged extra in costs , as some solicitors are wont to do every time you telephone them . |
| 18 | And when you brought it for your cattle like the highland parkway making whisky . |
| 19 | When you ask him for leave to serve him on this mission he will welcome it as the solution to his anxieties , for even if you are only gone from Kinsai for a time , it will seem to him that you do not mean to impose upon his favour . ’ |
| 20 | to , to erm to try and remember what it was like when you read it for the first time . |
| 21 | Oh yes , and of course when you have it for two days you ca n't actually guard your language all the time |
| 22 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 23 | Jekub can be a bit scary when you see him for the first time . ’ |
| 24 | When you see it for yourself you 'll agree it 's brilliant . |
| 25 | So what did she say about the money when you tried her for less money ? |
| 26 | When you meet someone for the first time , that person can |
| 27 | But I do n't want to be alive when you reject me for it . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
| 29 | ‘ Pity to shut you away down here , ’ Mr Priddy said gruffly when she thanked him for his recommendation . |
| 30 | Johnson did not drink her proffered dram , but Boswell and the two guides did , and when she asked them for snuff , her great luxury , they had none , but gave her money instead . |