Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any amendment to the law that provides an aggravated penalty for someone who could not have foreseen that for which he is sentenced must be wrong . |
| 2 | Hm , I 'll make that for you then . |
| 3 | ‘ Dear Theda , you must surely be able to see that for yourself . |
| 4 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
| 5 | Can you post that for me please ? |
| 6 | When friendships finally became possible for him they were with children of the lower orders . |
| 7 | I mean , I know it 's something to do with funding but could you just explain that for me ? |
| 8 | Erm , it was not possible to get your views in , as it were , personnel terms rather than financial terms on that er report , but er as it were on your behalf , we supported the Treasurer 's er recommendation for reasons set out in paragraph one four , and if I can er explain that for you a little little more , de-regulation could mean , that each employing authority has it 's own scheme of superannuation , or not , and if not would simply leave employees in a position of taking them off the state scheme S E R P S or going for a personal pension . |
| 9 | But you got that for your . |
| 10 | Erm Dick I I walked round the site on Friday with er Paul and S Paul and Stuart because Paul has been I do n't necessarily think this for you I do n't know why I said Dick then . |
| 11 | Yeah , I do n't , wait a minute , would n't you want this for your own kitchen window ? |
| 12 | In a sharply contrasting assessment , US Treasury Nicholas Brady argued on Sept. 22 that lower interest rates encouraged increases in investment , productivity and living standards , adding that " when interest rates remain high for whatever reason , the returns on investment stay sterile in the banking system " . |
| 13 | Nona might be able to confirm this for them . |
| 14 | At the same time the book became popular for its literary merits with the Romantic Movement , who preferred a naïve and spontaneous style to the studied and artificial manner of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | ‘ Images ’ were a sort of charade , amateur theatricals to grace the hard face of commerce , and they became popular for their own sake . |
| 16 | Ask your doctor to arrange this for you . |
| 17 | I will speak to him and try to arrange this for you . |
| 18 | Everything he touches goes wrong for me . " |
| 19 | But suddenly it all started to go wrong for him . |
| 20 | But after this our sympathy is beginning to be restored as things start to go wrong for him and he practically redeems . |
| 21 | Then one day in winter when I was seventeen , things began to go wrong for me . |
| 22 | With the departure of the enthusiastic Biddle , Darlington lost momentum and things began to go wrong for them . |
| 23 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 24 | ‘ Please be stamping this for me , Highness . ’ |
| 25 | The best way of organizing this for your file , is file of reports . |
| 26 | ‘ I made this for you , Anna , ’ he had said , presenting her with a small wooden doll . |
| 27 | like this Who got this for you ? |
| 28 | Could you please answer this for me ? |
| 29 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 30 | But I looked at it and I thought well I 'm being silly here because , it 's not keeping that for me , , you see he 's given me a bit of and |