Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 2 | I 've lots of ideas for these , but as they are all quick to make I 've left them for next month when you have finished your special presents and they are neatly folded and packed away in all their glory of tissue paper and gold and silver ribbons . |
| 3 | So do n't let's moan about , I mean thank you for your point , I 'm not putting you down , but let , let's sort of get up there and , and go for it if we , if we feel we can contribute . |
| 4 | Your brother 's death left you heiress to Tracy Castle , and I intend taking it for the King . ’ |
| 5 | I need to know the wiring for the Nato socket as I intend to use it for towing my caravan , but will need to alter the wiring to suit or obtain another Nato plug and add the 12n/12s plugs to this . |
| 6 | And then I agreed to do something for Émile that I did not wish to do , which made me ashamed . |
| 7 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 8 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 9 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 10 | When she comes out in nice clothes I say get them for modelling ? |
| 11 | That 's what I want to use it for . |
| 12 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 13 | There 's already a school for boys in Morton , and now I want to open one for girls , so I 've rented a building for it , with a small cottage for the schoolteacher . |
| 14 | WE had a lovely time in Lourdes , I want to thank everyone for looking after us both . |
| 15 | The cards and calls from well-wishers have been a real pick-me-up and I want to thank everyone for their concern and support . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight . |
| 17 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to thank you for this opportunity and tell you I will do my very best for you . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I want to thank you for the roses , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to thank you for all you did for Mam . |
| 21 | You do n't yet give us money , although I hope may , one day you will be persuaded to do so , but you have given us time , and particularly in the person of your colleague Sandra who is here , and her time to us has been enormously valuable and I want to thank you for that . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Nurse Shelley , I want to thank you for caring for me , ’ said the old lady . |
| 24 | ‘ No disrespect to you , Marge , but I want to save myself for when I get married . ’ |
| 25 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 26 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 27 | Then he said : ‘ You have been so kind to us that I want to do something for you in return . |
| 28 | ‘ Look here , you chaps , ’ he said , ‘ I want to do something for you . ’ |
| 29 | Playing music is what I love — and I want to do it for as long as possible . ’ |
| 30 | Her nose is all cold and wet and I want to wipe it for her , but I do n't . |