Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] for [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was paying my taxes for you to acquire your skill , I 'll have you know . |
| 2 | I put down five hundred on my lists for you to decide . |
| 3 | In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped . |
| 4 | In the dark she has to show her teeth for me to know she is smiling . |
| 5 | Djohar refused their demands for him to step down , blaming lack of preparedness for the failure of the February ballot . |
| 6 | One good look at Ruari 's strained face and Mairi Ban had him on his feet , his arms over their shoulders for them to help him home . |
| 7 | My hands got very cold too , but my mother helped me every morning by baking two potatoes in their skins for me to keep in my pockets ; they retained their heat for quite a long time . |
| 8 | Catching on to the coat tails of the downsizing rush just in time , CA said that it was surprised by the demands from its users for it to develop migratory and Unix-based applications — a far cry it admits from its traditional stronghold in the mainframe market . |
| 9 | It would clearly be in their interests for them to agree to bid £10 an acre for one-half the acreage each . |
| 10 | As Les and I walked into their tiny , barely furnished house , his wife greeted us , and his little girl held up her arms for me to lift her . |
| 11 | He laughed and ingored her pleas for him to stop . |
| 12 | When Victoria found the grit from the paths got into her sandals , Richard removed her shoes and socks and shook all the gravel out of them , folding her socks for her to put them on again in the special way that her nanny did . |
| 13 | Therefore , even if he did not have a stammer , there would not be enough breath in his lungs for him to speak his words property . |
| 14 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |