Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |
2 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
3 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
4 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
5 | The banks want us to pay them for the privilege of making their money from our money . |
6 | All right , but let me stop you for a moment , there . |
7 | They let me hold her for a few minutes and then they took her away upstairs to Special Care . |
8 | ‘ First let me thank you for the great job you are doing with the ‘ Nottingham Graduate ’ . |
9 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
10 | Let 'em rough it for a week . |
11 | Let us content ourselves for the moment with finding out exactly which of the axioms given earlier are required to establish property M. First , then , we prove , giving all the details , Lemma 1.2.1 |
12 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
13 | When I was fifteen we rented a rough shoot of about a thousand acres on Stowe Hill , part of the Stanage estate ; Guy Rogers let us have it for a fiver . |
14 | They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison . |
15 | Now look it asks you for a certain number of things It says As The average does n't it ? |
16 | Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ? |
17 | I know you get nothing for a tenner but if you spend hundred pound you can |
18 | I know you do it for the good of us but I still like to buy you something as a thank you . |
19 | you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in |
20 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
21 | tell her thank you for the combine . |
22 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
23 | John , how much do I owe you for the erm the lens ? |
24 | You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people |
25 | She lifted her lip at me — I think she meant it for a smile . ’ |
26 | No , how about the men , do you do anything for the men ? |
27 | Do you take me for a fool , child ? ’ |
28 | ‘ Do you take me for a highwayman ? ’ |
29 | ‘ Do you take me for a fool , sir ? ’ |
30 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |