Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUIL : You 've only got their word for it . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've still only got his word for it , ’ said Lewis , after Ashenden had gone . |
| 3 | There were even rumblings that we might represent a sort of Karmic return of this man — who had apparently shared our obsession for their sailing craft , as well as for Bira 's surrounding wildlife . " |
| 4 | But you 've just argued my case for me , have n't you ? |
| 5 | He had no doubt that it was something devious , and her tone indicated she had already made her choice for him . |
| 6 | Louis has had just had his call for his hernia , but he 's got ta ring up on Tuesday to see if there 's a bed available . |
| 7 | All week our doctor and two lawyers had thus credited their clients for their various pleasures . |
| 8 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 9 | Following her attendance as a guest at the C.C.P.R. 50th Anniversary Festival , when she was very impressed by both Medau items , Dame Ninette de Valois has graciously accepted our invitation for her to become the Society 's Patron . |
| 10 | The contrast between the two men of near-identical appearance is shown in a less formal , more novelistic manner in the character of the King , depicted in The Prisoner of Zenda as a weak , pleasure-loving young man trying to equip himself for his destiny and in Rupert of Hentzau as a man ill in body , weaned by matters of state , gradually coming to resent his obligations to the man whose courage and energy have twice saved his position for him and burdened by jealous suspicions of his wife 's fidelity . |
| 11 | The fact was that both young women shared an unspoken anxiety for Fleury 's safety and though Louise had not yet confided her feelings for him to Miriam , she really did not need to do so for these feelings were plain enough already . |