Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 2 | It may be extremely hard for your employer to justify a poor grading at assessment time when earlier in the year you received a letter from the chairman specifically thanking and praising you for your efforts . |
| 3 | ‘ One is always grateful for that kind of comic genius who takes your script and plays it for everything that 's in it , ’ as Shaffer told me . |
| 4 | He rang her just before lunch and recommended us for their pets . |
| 5 | Mobutu resisted pressure from Western governments to enter into a power-sharing arrangement with Tshisekedi and attacked them for their " flagrant interference " ; he understood , he said , " that Western aid is mixed with all sorts of threats and blackmail " . |
| 6 | Thinking about this one morning in 1954 , I went along to the keeper of the laboratory chemical stores and asked him for something which was water-soluble and formed needle crystals . |
| 7 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 8 | To embroider the sampler , we turned to some multiple agencies and asked them for their recommendations of good value on a £1,000 booking for four people . |
| 9 | I moved some girls into the middle and asked them for their guesses . |
| 10 | ‘ We wish , my brother and I , we wish you to take some of our money and to invest it for us in — in such places where you invest your own . ’ |
| 11 | Texas Instruments , having recognised the wider implications of producing high performance processors , has attached great importance to its C compilers and produces them for their TMS320C25 and TMS320C3x . |
| 12 | Kalchu was ashamed of his drunkenness and Chola grumbled and rebuked him for it . |
| 13 | It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself . |
| 14 | He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you . |
| 15 | God seems to get a real kick out of choosing people who think that they are useless , or who others think are useless , and using them for something important and useful . |
| 16 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 17 | On the basis of the principle of participation , for example , it is possible for man to justify controlling nature and using it for his own ends . |
| 18 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |
| 19 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 20 | ‘ Found her on half an acre in Buckinghamshire with her mother and got her for my youngest lad . |
| 21 | ‘ I wish I could court you with beautiful words , ’ the farmer went on , ‘ but I can only say I love you madly and want you for my wife . |
| 22 | At the end of the question period , refocus attention on yourself through repeating your main points , wishing everyone well and thanking them for their attention . |
| 23 | Our Chairman , Richard Newcombe , who has taken a particular interest in the museum , then spoke , welcoming the guests and thanking them for their support . |
| 24 | I declined his offer of another brandy , made my excuses , and thanking him for his hospitality I left by the back door . |
| 25 | It controlled public resources in the manner of a private owner , and used them for its own purposes . |
| 26 | It is therefore a bonus for the theory that clay replicators synthesized organic molecules and used them for their own purposes . |
| 27 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 28 | The taxi bill arose after he opened an account for Nalgo with Mersey Cabs without authorisation and used it for his own personal use as well as official business . |
| 29 | Er we we go in and sell the advertising if they er we 'll take over as soon as the current supply runs out we we 'll start offering er and supply it for them . |
| 30 | She had never been afraid to look straightly at whatever fortune sent her , to map its every feature , and acknowledge it for what it was . |