Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time .
2 ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’
3 It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now !
4 I only meant it for the best .
5 You have to get him wound down a bit , you have to do it , you know of a about half an hour or so ask him for the proper name !
6 The Scottish Typographical Circular reported of this conflict that " people are beginning to see that making women printers … will only unfit them for the active and paramount duties of female society " .
7 Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention .
8 If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome .
9 Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus .
10 I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million .
11 He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie .
12 The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees .
13 Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake .
14 I got off with Andrew but that 's all a p only a who I get off with him and I do n't fancy him , I know I do n't want to go out with him I just fancy him for the occasional snog , fair enough but I 'm just saying like you know you fancy
15 They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame .
16 Why is it that those countries can accept basic , decent minimum standards for their people whereas this Government will not accept them for the British people ?
17 He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York .
18 It is said that there is a spell within the music , and that they always spin it for the true heir , and that it protects that heir throughout his life .
19 There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years .
20 It was a move that clearly suited him for the following season he was picked for the county squad .
21 James Boswell , for example , often used them for the former , even occasionally , apparently , for the latter ; but never it seems with his wife .
22 Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ .
23 I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years .
24 Should the prosecution now try them for the distinguished Great Mail Robbery or for murder ?
25 As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance .
26 It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears .
27 By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time .
28 ‘ To be honest , I could n't even say when I 'm going to be back but I 've got to realistically think I wo n't make it for the European Cup . ’
29 Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday .
30 All you have ever read about the delights of fast-jet aerobatics still ca n't prepare you for the utter , mind-blowing super-smooth , almost silent exhilaration of the real thing !
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