Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight . |
| 2 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 3 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
| 4 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 5 | ‘ Many British and American tourists feel that they have connections with some part of Scottish history and they want to experience it for themselves . ’ |
| 6 | He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself . |
| 7 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 8 | Her nose is all cold and wet and I want to wipe it for her , but I do n't . |
| 9 | Another scale of wholesale charges for unused equipment is also useful for people who like a particular product so much that they genuinely want to buy it for themselves , albeit at a preferential rate . |
| 10 | The cost of weapons often means they are in potentially short supply , all the more so because once commanders find that a weapon works , they want to use it for everything . |
| 11 | My husband has to do it for me . |
| 12 | We want to do it for him . ’ |
| 13 | They had all made that shrill moan during their funny parties , and by the time of Gary 's birth , Mary had come to recognise them for what they were — satanic incantations . |
| 14 | I suppose you want to keep it for your wedding night ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Shame to spoil it for you , then , ’ he said tartly , and walked off , leaving Gabriel face to face with the recorder-player he had seen on stage . |
| 16 | He was quite aware of her marital designs on him , but she was very much part of the life which he had rejected , even if she refused to recognise that fact , and tried to reclaim him for it . |
| 17 | The bastard tried to pay me for it , the only way he could get excited was by the thought of buying me . |
| 18 | It is often the sudden availability of time that allows women to develop their talents at last — and then find that other people want to pay them for their work ! |
| 19 | and he wants to get it for his disability project to see if he can get |
| 20 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 21 | In many such cases earners of the foreign currency might be expected to exchange it for their own . |
| 22 | ‘ What I do n't understand is why you appear to blame me for something someone else thought and said . ’ |
| 23 | Scorpios are intensely possessive and jealous individuals , and whether you like it or not , your Adam Burns has decided to claim you for his own . ’ |
| 24 | It was all Wilson could do to thank her for her concern . |
| 25 | ‘ Charm , ’ had said the tolerant , smiling on the young Fergus , prepared to accept him for what he was , but , ‘ Arrogant , ’ said the older , more cynical courtiers . |
| 26 | She walked past Jotan to the door , and the pages who were stationed there hastened to open it for her . |
| 27 | Do you know what Shrimpy 's decided to buy me for my birthday ? |
| 28 | Wollongong , Palo Alto , California plans to use it in its open systems interconnection communications product line for the Digital Equipment Corp VAX , and Datability , Carlstadt , New Jersey plans to incorporate it for its communications server product line . |
| 29 | Wanting to keep her for himself , and not wishing to give away her identity to his colleagues , he gives her a male name : ‘ Bob ’ — to the delight of the audience , who then laugh each time he uses the name . |
| 30 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |