Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made tea for him as he worked , watching a vee of geese heading for the interior as the kettle boiled . |
| 2 | Then I tried aromatherapy for my urethritis . |
| 3 | I 'd said to Mr Palmer in 1960 after St Andrews that I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 4 | But to my dismay he said he 'd got a local caddie for Birkdale , and that he 'd misunderstood me when I said I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 5 | When I needed information for my paper , he was always helpful . |
| 6 | ‘ Oliver Moreton has been badgering me to have dinner since I started work for him . |
| 7 | I would buy it myself if I had room for it . ’ |
| 8 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 9 | That 's why I left word for you to come here . ’ |
| 10 | So I told him things I 'd never told anyone — how much I resented Dad for what he 'd done to Mum , and how Mum had suffered , how painful the whole thing had been , though I was only now beginning to feel it . |
| 11 | He maintained an interest in two farms which produced willow for his bats . |
| 12 | Dalton believed that the simplest compound of two elements must have one atom of each ; which made water for him HO . |
| 13 | She hummed to herself when she was working and should you pass her when she was on her knees polishing the floor , or slapping dough on the board — she made bread for them all — she would come out with some remark that would either cause you to make a retort in similar vein or have you burst out laughing . |
| 14 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |
| 15 | Unless subsidies were forthcoming , it was only great and favoured men such as Jean de Grilly who requested knighthood for their sons from Edward I at their own expense . |
| 16 | Welcoming the Rangers ace back into the international fold after almost four years in the wilderness , manager Taylor quickly reassured Arsenal star Ian Wright , the man who made way for him . |
| 17 | She 's over eighty and ill and she asked Mother for me . |
| 18 | Single , never-married daughters traditionally have been the group who provided care for their parents in old age . |
| 19 | Winston McLeod , who played soccer for his school , district , London , Middlesex and West Ham United before a strangulated hernia sustained in a tackle in 1972 effectively finished his football career , reflected on his and other blacks ' experiences with teachers : |
| 20 | Next , while the endocrine specialist packed his equipment away , she poured coffee for everyone , and carefully committed Faye 's preference of black with no sugar to memory . |
| 21 | ‘ She cooked dinner for us — she always keeps her promises , does n't she , no matter how she 's feeling ? — but now she 's bushed . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We are also so grateful to the cyclists who raised sponsorship for us , and to BT for their support . ’ |
| 23 | Here she hit wood for her second when it would have been less risky to try an iron , and after finding trouble in sand , ended up taking ‘ six ’ , the first time all week she had failed to make par on the hole . |
| 24 | At last the Council wrote to Osiris , who replied with the threat of his power of ruler of the dead , who feared neither god nor man , and who demanded justice for his son . |
| 25 | Do you remember Mrs Butler who kept house for me ? ’ |
| 26 | Now , bent and rheumaticky and crosser than ever , Ruth and her sister Joan Young found him a figure to be pitied rather than feared , but both agreed that he was an evil-tempered old man and they felt very sorry for his only daughter Molly who kept house for him . |
| 27 | Those who felt affection for him had no easy way of telling him so , since he seemed to regard friend and enemy alike . |
| 28 | Yours is the clear-sighted , undeceived vision of the ancients , who knew life for what it is and men for what they are , and did not flinch from that knowledge . |
| 29 | From this time until the end of her life she kept house for her father , and took some hand in his affairs . |
| 30 | If you , if all your loans to B Sky B were performing and you took credit for them what , what would the contribution be ? |