Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Bring him down to see us , " they say , " and we 'll tell him how he can and ought to claim for you . " |
| 2 | He said I really ought to go for it . |
| 3 | She was pleased at the distinction , and amused , as she told me , that twice she had been decorated by a Labour government ; she almost felt she ought to vote for them ! |
| 4 | So I used to go for it , just in case , and nine times out of 10 he 'd find me . |
| 5 | He used to drive for you . ’ |
| 6 | When my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook was Home Secretary , he used to draft for us what he described as a crime clock . |
| 7 | Well , I used to wait for her , trembling like a leaf ; then she would come behind me and bump me , and down I would go , down , down , down , into hell and wake up screaming and our Charlie shaking the life out of me … ’ |
| 8 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 10 | I mean we were to come over Bridge here and there was a police station on Bridge at the time , police , you know opposite the T B I , and the sergeant used to stand there and he used to wait for us coming home . |
| 11 | Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season . |
| 12 | I had very good girls really , I w would just just erm lost one of the ones that used to work for me . |
| 13 | My niece used to work for me too . |
| 14 | I always see him riding about up the Steven there he 's always up there I know when I used to work for it was always Steve who used to be riding to this farm , riding to that farm , checking on this , checking on that and taking the wages round that sort of thing . |
| 15 | People in Baldersdale often used to come for him to help calve their cows and , on one occasion , he worked alongside our local vet at that time , Mr Joe Cosgrove , who said afterwards he was pretty good . |
| 16 | Cinemas had their own magazines : the Gaumont , Watford , had its own magazine ; the State , Kilburn , had its own magazine , and I used to write for them and did verses . |
| 17 | I used to look for him too when I was younger but I ca n't climb the shelves anymore . |
| 18 | And different churches round , they used to send for him when there was nobody there . |
| 19 | He used to call for me to go to school , and that could be an eventful journey because the way led through the Sayers ' farm at West New Houses , and they kept a flock of geese and a bull . |
| 20 | He used to baby-sit for her . |
| 21 | In Long Kesh Prison , fellow prisoners used to save for him part of their daily allowance of milk . |
| 22 | She had told me , quite sharply for her , to drop that silly name we used to have for him , the man of principle . |
| 23 | Grain imports would be necessary , he said , although there had been a fall in the Soviet oil revenues used to pay for them . |
| 24 | But me mother used to pay for it you see . |
| 25 | She often used to ask for him after that , and nobody knew why . |
| 26 | Cos all that horsebox drivers used to ask for them . |
| 27 | I used to tease Shaun a bit and I used to ask for it in a way . ’ |
| 28 | When she arrived home , Emily shrugged off her coat and kicked her shoes across the room ; they were not comfortable shoes , the leather was hard and ill-shaped , nothing like the wonderful shoes Hari Morgan used to make for her . |
| 29 | After what Jeff had told her about Guido Falcone , the only feelings she ought to have for him were disapproval and dislike . |