Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun sg] for [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Channel 4's Have I Got News For You team , headed by Angus Deayton and starring Private Eye editor Ian Hislop and comedian Paul Merton , mercilessly ridiculed anyone . |
| 2 | Self-styled funniest programme on telly HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU dusts itself off after a very poor return to the screen last week with well-known wit Charles Kennedy of the Liberal Democrats . |
| 3 | Cult-turned-flagship Have I Got News For You garnered six million viewers this year , a BBC2 chart-topper , and , as Merton observes , ‘ You do n't hear a bad thing said about it ! ’ |
| 4 | That 's why I left word for you to come here . ’ |
| 5 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 6 | If he was more successful than me , I could say it made sense for me to give up my career . ’ |
| 7 | For fathers in say , metalworking or joinery , there was no chance at all of their daughters following in their footsteps , but it made sense for them to seize the chance offered by the printing trade . |
| 8 | It took time for me to accept it . |
| 9 | It took time for her to find out , but she needed no other evidence than her eyes to tell her Ferdinando had lost interest in the pretty maid . |
| 10 | ‘ It makes sense for me to know what you have there , I suppose . ’ |
| 11 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 12 | But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true . |
| 13 | ‘ Since the region is Sir Bob 's best customer , I would think it makes sense for us to talk , ’ he said . |
| 14 | The act affected the working of the political system in a number of significant ways so that it makes sense for us to see the constitution in very different terms from those which focused on the balance between King , Lords and Commons . |