Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 2 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 3 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 4 | Or else he could have fed and kept you for the rest of your life ! ’ |
| 5 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 6 | Peter Nieswand used to go and interview him for the BBC , sitting as I did beside his swimming pool , looking across the lawn on to six miles of fine farm-land . |
| 7 | His aims are thus established from the outset both to record the evidence he has gathered and to evaluate it for the purposes of determining the truth . |
| 8 | While half of her brain hated and despised them for the job they were doing , the other half acknowledged that at least part of her present mission was to buy newspapers and read what was said . |
| 9 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
| 10 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 11 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 12 | I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out . |
| 13 | Well , can we go and ask him for an invitation ? |
| 14 | And yeah , they 've gone and re-credited me for the fifteen pound ! |
| 15 | You yourself may come and visit her for an hour once a month . |
| 16 | ‘ Er — I was wondering if you could just come and help me for a moment ? ’ |
| 17 | I then used a fingertip roughly to blend and spread them for a hazier and more subtle finish . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel I should write and thank you for the smooth transition and vast improvement to the standard of cleaning at our premises . |
| 19 | No , they wrote and ask you for the exact date of day I started getting ability allowance . |
| 20 | I believe she has even phoned an old school friend of mine whom she avowedly dislikes and asked him for the manuscript of a symphony we once composed together . |
| 21 | And er anyway he come and ask me for a dance he did he goes , I 'm not much of dancer we did that one you know , what they call it ? |
| 22 | When you 've read it come and ask me for the disk and I 'll lend it to you . |
| 23 | Come and see us for a pint , I 'll meet you in so and so and we 'll go for a pint ’ , and all that , y'know . |
| 24 | It would not allow it to be enforced against the promisor ; and if property had been transferred , the recipient was treated as holding it for the benefit of the person who had parted with it , and as bound to restore it . |
| 25 | Again , a person who acquires property for his own benefit by taking advantage of his position as trustee will be treated as holding it for the benefit of those entitled under the trust . |
| 26 | There are all kinds and levels of faith but only one God who will accept or reject us for the lives we live today . |
| 27 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 28 | Jean Margaret 's memo 17.1.89 re sickness , you need to make clear that Area Staff inform you of any days sickness they have and to ask you for a form . |
| 29 | ‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’ |
| 30 | " endeavour to find out a person both to answer to their expectation and those of the Town , and … to superintend and assist him for a while . " |