Example sentences of "[vb pp] for me by " in BNC.
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| 1 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 2 | The splendid packed lunch arranged for me by Major Hal that morning plus the thermos of American coffee made a welcome lunch as ‘ Deemy ’ and I winged our solitary way over the continuous stretches of grasslands , lakes and rivers of Siberia to make a smooth landing at the Russian Air Force base at Irkutsk early that evening . |
| 3 | It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I bought the waterfalls off Lloyd Cole before he moved to America , and the rainbow was specially designed for me by a team of clever scientists . |
| 5 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 6 | The girl who had been selected for me by Miss Sowerby never turned up . |
| 7 | And I used to swallow up all those stories in the women 's magazines , which were very kindly saved for me by two ladies down the dale . |
| 8 | In my own family in India , often enough saris are bought for me by my father or mother . |
| 9 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 10 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 11 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 12 | But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week . |
| 13 | Cultured gents , identified for me by Mackie as being the Himalayan peaks of the Jockey Club , paid compliments to Tremayne from an adjacent table and bowed low to the sponsor . |
| 14 | But whatever was lost for me by that death I still saw , and see , love as the only real world . |
| 15 | I have a strictly limited choice of action , and the extent of the choice is determined for me by the constraints of my physical environment . |
| 16 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |
| 17 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |