Example sentences of "[prep] you for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take off the coloured belt after you leave the area so that you wo n't have stewards chasing after you for it ! |
| 2 | ‘ We 're not after you for anything , ’ Shirl said , quite kindly . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not going to do anything , except wait and see how the police get on , ’ said Joe , ‘ and I do n't know what you can do except tell the police that you got acquainted with the unfortunate bloke when he came after you for nicking that wallet from Blackbeard . |
| 4 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 6 | They look after you for everything . |
| 7 | Oh , Charlie , you 've done it now , because she 's been after you for years . |
| 8 | Then I 'd be looking after you for both products and what I want to do is have a look at all the standard bearings you take to see if there is potential for a supply . |
| 9 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 10 | Yeah but Arthur she only takes after you for that . |
| 11 | The tour in Japan was over and David left — he sailed for Vladivostok — and finally , just to get rid of me as usual ( if you keep making enough noise they 'll get rid of you for a little peace and quiet ) they gave me a visa . |
| 12 | ‘ Nobody has seen hide nor hair of you for at least a month , ’ he was saying . |
| 13 | ‘ Glad to be rid of you for a while , ’ she retorted . |
| 14 | He 's made it perfectly easy for you , and nobody will think any the worse of you for getting out . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do n't I take the pair of you for a plate of chips ? ’ |
| 16 | And when it is over , we will just disappear from your lives and Allah will wash His hands of you for ever . ’ |
| 17 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 18 | So I 'm gon na ask both of you for a word specially in a moment to describe what it was like for that girl in the jungle . |
| 19 | We just want to say thank you very much to all of you for coming and listening . |
| 20 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 21 | But if you can produce 28 seconds that actually exists as a piece of entertainment and makes people laugh , nobody will ever think the worse of you for it . |
| 22 | Thanks to all of you for sharing your views . |
| 23 | I have been a friend of your wonderful Rabbi and of many of you for a very long time . |
| 24 | I 'm proud of you for doing that . |
| 25 | Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for . |
| 26 | Well , I 'm trying to get information out of you for a start . ’ |
| 27 | I wish to thank each and every one of you for the part you played during 1991 . |
| 28 | So , in anticipation of both this year 's result and next year 's plan , may I take this end of year opportunity to thank each and every one of you for all your contributions in 1991 , and to wish you and your families an enjoyable Christmas and a prosperous and happy New Year . |
| 29 | ‘ We have heard of you for many years . |
| 30 | ‘ Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I 'd be immensely pleased if you 'd let me stay with you at your place and take care of you for a while . |