Example sentences of "of [verb] [pers pn] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 2 | You should , we told you you should of had a little dog like ours and it could of ripped them up for ya . |
| 3 | He had actually taken the trouble of ruling them out for all his business contacts as well . |
| 4 | Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool . |
| 5 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 6 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 7 | Was this his way of paying her back for trying to sneak Kirsty down to London ? |
| 8 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 9 | but Pauline must of remembered it perhaps for the |
| 10 | The shortage of labour forced the landowners to change their methods of exploiting their estates , most obviously in the abandonment of direct cultivation of the demesne by the lord 's paid men in favour of leasing it out for a cash rent . |
| 11 | I could name at least three of my friends who would have been prompt to offer this undeniably attractive young man a doss down on the sofa , and one of them who would have already been thinking of taking him upstairs for the night … |
| 12 | Instead of putting them down for the afternoon , I 'd like to be able to do something with them . |
| 13 | Now then , I like the new look — ’ Sarella had had her hair cropped ‘ — and was thinking of putting you in for the ingénue , but I 'm having second thoughts . ’ |
| 14 | She , they should of put her in for the intermediate |
| 15 | I mean he would of put it up for sale knowing that you wanted to get somewhere between you , knowing that the house market is as it is |
| 16 | If we can sort of get them out for a night or even if they get back at twelve . |
| 17 | So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed . |
| 18 | This idea that the essentials for salvation are never ‘ above reason ’ sits uneasily with what Locke has already said about the practical difficulty of working them out for oneself . |
| 19 | At the outset the number was eight , but this resulted in a slow turnover between measurements , and after some early trials the number was reduced to two , with the intention of raising it again for serious measurements if the results were encouraging . |