Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 2 | Do this one for me ! |
| 3 | Get moving with this one for me . |
| 4 | Donna can you do this one for me ? |
| 5 | Will you do this one for me ? |
| 6 | I still have a few copies and am sending this one for you to see . |
| 7 | Can I open this one for you ? |
| 8 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 9 | Could you make another one for him ? |
| 10 | Make another one for him dad . |
| 11 | Make another one for him . |
| 12 | Isabelle watches as Crilly takes a burn , and lights another one for me . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got another one for you , now . ’ |
| 14 | Lot number one hundred and twenty nine , an okimono there 's another one for you for four hundred pounds and fifty , at four hundred and fifty pounds at four hundred and fifty , five hundred , five fifty going on , sir ? |
| 15 | Wait — I 'll just get a coffee and another one for you . ’ |
| 16 | Shall I do your top one for you ? |
| 17 | Clearly there is a connection , if Eurofighter two thousand was available earlier then they the plan for replacing er some of the aircraft in the R A F's front line er could be adjusted accordingly erm but it 's not a sort of direct one for one er if the part of the programme slips a year the jaguar must go on an extra year because within the R A F's overall plans for its er fleet replacement there is a certain degree of flexibility an and precisely which point the jaguars get replaced is er a judgement between them and their three . |
| 18 | Moreover , this story is a painful one for me to tell . |
| 19 | You could have made it a very unpleasant one for me , but you did n't . ’ |
| 20 | The technique may be a taxing one for us as readers , but it ensures that in seizing on details , we shall not lose sight of the ramifications of the whole . |
| 21 | He slumped into the chair at the end of the table and ordered a servant to bring in a similar one for his nephew . |
| 22 | Why had he returned to a milieu which he must have known was a dangerous one for him ? |
| 23 | I thought it was a very difficult and dangerous one for us to start out with . |
| 24 | No English-speaking child learning to spell … would write ket for [ kaet ] ; the distinction between [ ae ] and [ e ] is an absolute one for him ( since otherwise he could not distinguish , for example , man from men ) … |
| 25 | The Duke turned Friar in Measure for Measure cultivates at least two different prose-styles , a plain and business-like one for his benevolent deceptions , and that of a moralist disappointed with the world — a persona within which he can also rise to more serious denunciatory verse as the occasion warrants ( for verse within this prose role see III.ii. 19–39 ; 261–82 ; IV.ii. 108–13 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ If we book a separate one for me , ’ she pointed out , ‘ I may have to show my passport . |
| 27 | This would appear to be a herculean task for the relatively efficient and an impossible one for everyone else . |
| 28 | The year has not been an easy one for our Italian business . |
| 29 | Gedge fixed it for his parents to watch the show from the wings . |
| 30 | Their egg is an unusually large one for their body size and has a generous yolk . |