Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [noun sg] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am taking responsibility for my life . |
| 2 | I am raising money for him at the moment . |
| 3 | And , while her hopes dropped down to basement level , ‘ Now , ’ he added , ‘ I 'm taking Azor for his walk . ’ |
| 4 | I 'M DOING IT FOR YOU MICHAEL |
| 5 | Pat Connolly was led away to incarceration and I was offered treatment for my facial injuries and an operation on my flattened nose . |
| 6 | It has to be remembered that India and many countries of the Far East had appalling economic and social problems , not the least of which was providing food for their expanding populations . |
| 7 | ‘ Mrs Choak , how long have you been keeping house for your brother ? ’ |
| 8 | But if you 're playing guitar for your own personal pleasure , which many of us do , then you want the guitar to talk to you — not to some non-existent person sitting fifteen feet away . |
| 9 | At the same time as I was writing some correspondence ( including the note to you ) , I was attempting to organise the hand-over of certain severely disturbed patients to various colleagues who were to assume responsibility for them during the long vacation . |
| 10 | He has picked her up , lied to her , manipulated her insecurity and ignorance , and she is asking forgiveness for her lack of appreciation . |
| 11 | The person who acts like a chicken or conducts an orchestra for the stage hypnotist may be play acting , or he may genuinely feel that it is the hypnotist , not himself , who is taking responsibility for his actions . |
| 12 | Few things are more infuriating for a woman who is denied comfort for her own tears than to see her partner being sympathetically and sensually attracted to a strange woman who is grieving . |
| 13 | The teacher turned up at the police station at eight the next morning to tell me she was taking responsibility for my daughter . |
| 14 | She 'd imagined the woman would have wanted to accompany Héloise de Rochefort to the private and expensive clinic in Switzerland where she was having treatment for her nerves . |
| 15 | William of Malmesbury , who was collecting material for his histories at Canterbury at this time , put the news of their discovery into his Gesta Regum , and inserted the complete texts under the year 1072 into his slightly later Gesta Pontificum . |
| 16 | It would be solved at once if we were to abandon faith for something more solid which can be known . |
| 17 | She said they 're getting money for nothing ! |
| 18 | ‘ Unfortunately they 're demanding payment for their services . ’ |
| 19 | No longer were people in small communities sharing the necessities of life , but they were using money for everything . |
| 20 | She had been his nurse when he was a little boy , she had told Sally-Anne when they were preparing dinner for him one evening . |
| 21 | Though it would certainly be in keeping with his media image if he were to use Seawitch for what the tabloids liked to call a ‘ love nest ’ . |
| 22 | It 's making work for everybody . |
| 23 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 24 | Defence counsel Roger Eastman was awarded costs on behalf of the Marquis who was n't in court because he 's undergoing treatmnent for his drugs problem . |
| 25 | Just to look at it was to do penance for her failures . |
| 26 | He escaped a prison sentence after magistrates heard he was seeking help for his drink problem . |
| 27 | In 1920 he was appointed CBE for his direction of war material production at Doncaster works . |
| 28 | He was appointed OBE for his services during World War I when he acted as intermediary between the government and the distillers for the supply of alcohol for munition purposes . |
| 29 | A political career was now inevitable and in the July 1886 general election he was elected MP for his native county of Merioneth . |
| 30 | Now that he was crowned King of Scots , he was to pay homage for his kingdom to the English monarch as Lord Paramount . |