Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 2 | ‘ Say what you like , there 's no way I 'm going to agree to work for you for three years . |
| 3 | Incidentally , although it 's impractical for people to call Ampeg , I have a box number for anyone who might want to write to me for advice . |
| 4 | IN this chapter I want to search with you for the spirit of place , to conjure up the spirit that will give life and breath to descriptions of places . |
| 5 | And I want to work with you for a new Kenya . ’ |
| 6 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 7 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 8 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 10 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 11 | I want to live with him for ever and ever ! ’ |
| 12 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 13 | I rely on everybody else , but she has to rely on me for her food and comfort . |
| 14 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 15 | I do n't want to listen to you for ever . ’ |
| 16 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 17 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 18 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 19 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 20 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 21 | ‘ You wanting to sleep with her for example . ’ |
| 22 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 23 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 24 | Our older son and his wife came to live with us for four months , between University and his first job . |
| 25 | I was so glad that the ‘ family ’ came to stay with me for a change . |
| 26 | she were , she were helping to make tea and , I do n't know how she , how it came , but she said granddad , I thought oh something 's coming now I says what ? , she said if I came to stay with you , she said after Richard 's you know sale , if I came to stay with you for at the weekend shall I have to go in that |
| 27 | She came to rely on me for help and support and I am very , very upset . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you for some time , Jekyll , ’ said the lawyer , ‘ about your will . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 30 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |