Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt he had to speak to someone before he left for good . |
| 2 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 3 | I went down and the guy there started talking to me and we talked for five hours about life , about the reality of life , the reality of desires and goals and all that good stuff . |
| 4 | The simple statistical confirmation that the majority of them were from 1984 onwards — and probably from that particular Friday , though one can not be certain — in the skies above the Pacific Ocean was ( for me and I suspect for most who came to know ) the first and final affirmation that from now on this part of the world was the centre of things . |
| 5 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 6 | ‘ It is , of course , only a suspicion and I 'm sure you will say nothing until we know for certain . |
| 7 | Er i it was insulting to you and I apologize for that . |
| 8 | I wanted so much to put into words , in a novel or a play , all that you and I felt for one another , not just to love love but to inscribe it as George Eliot and Willa Cather had done . |
| 9 | So they 're looking because we we at precision now need it but we need it faster than if we if we awaited for this , then put in and so on . |
| 10 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 11 | I sat beside her and we waited for those who had not yet arrived . |
| 12 | Your mother has been difficult again , he told her , best for her and you to travel for some time — Papa , where are we going ? — The tickets are for England . |
| 13 | One pal said : ‘ He loved her so much he would have done anything to protect her and he paid for that love with his life . ’ |
| 14 | Keeping himself hidden , Philip watched him as he looked for another stone . |
| 15 | Going in at No. 10 , he raced to 55 off the bowling of Hall , Watson , Worrell ( whom he hit for six ) and Ramadhin , before Valentine bowled him as he went for another big hit . |
| 16 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 17 | Erm the , on appendix five and annexe A is of course is of course an annexe to it and I apologise for this . |
| 18 | Seldom had Sergeant Camb felt so sorry for anyone as he did for this woman who lay against the piled pillows . |
| 19 | I mean she said to me when I went for this Men Mencap job she said erm , have you got any trade behind you ? |
| 20 | Once we were inside , she was also most assiduous in accompanying us as we searched for any secret entrance or passageway . |