Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 2 | With a few deft eye-blinks they can clear their field of vision and watch the world about them for clues of special danger . |
| 3 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 4 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 5 | He 'd read books about murders and we talked about them for years . |
| 6 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 7 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 8 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 9 | Collins , for example , bought a very fine work off me for 600 roubles . |
| 10 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 11 | Two you had off me for the fete . |
| 12 | After that she tried even harder and now , at last , she really is off them for good . ’ |
| 13 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 14 | For it seemed to her then that he was aware that her thoughts were troubled and , when he had no need whatsoever to put himself out , he had decided to take her mind off them for a brief while . |
| 15 | They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see . |
| 16 | ‘ So how about me for a mate ? ’ |
| 17 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 18 | You go to your party , Mum , just forget about me for once ! |
| 19 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 20 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 21 | Leith was having difficulty in equating this caring-sounding Naylor with the aggressive brute she had tangled with last night when Travis revealed , ‘ But it was my mother who rang him on Friday and , it seems , confessed — something I 'd been too preoccupied to have noticed — that she 'd been worried about me for some while . |
| 22 | If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins . |
| 23 | Schools entering into an entrepreneurial spirit should not , for example , sell school records to promoters of consumer goods or allow journalists or public relations consultants to leaf through them for good stories . |
| 24 | To all our Link Churches throughout Britain , thank you for your support for BMS and through them for us . |
| 25 | Sometimes troops are forced to move into Fanatics , because they move randomly , or they are forced to flee through them for example . |
| 26 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 27 | My father seemed to be happy to conduct his affairs through them for long enough . |
| 28 | We will require employers to give everyone who works for them for more than eight hours a week a clear written statement of their terms and conditions of employment . |
| 29 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 30 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |