Example sentences of "for [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such countries were allowed to buy non-military materials , provided that they paid cash for them and transported them in their own ships ( the " cash and carry laws " ) . |
| 2 | They 're the ones who get everybody else to do what they want them to do , like die for them and work for them and get them into power and protect them and pay taxes and buy them toys , and they 're the ones who 'll survive another big war , in their bunkers and tunnels . |
| 3 | ’ Blenkarn received the goods but never paid for them and sold them to Cundy who knew nothing of his fraud . |
| 4 | I composed a note for them and left it in the hall beside the phone . |
| 5 | Mrs Bennet and Jinny took charge of the two women and two small girls , making tea for them and wrapping them in blankets . |
| 6 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 7 | This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age . |
| 8 | ‘ He used to buy slimming magazines for me and put them in my bag , ’ remembers Victoria , who lives in Manchester . |
| 9 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 10 | Paragraphs ( a ) , ( b ) and ( c ) of the subsection all describe unilateral , though honest , acts of the appropriator , who takes the property for himself and treats it as his own . |
| 11 | Now if you want to see something that 's up on a shelf at the side , ask one of the helpers wearing a red jersey and they 'll take it down for you and show it to you . |
| 12 | erm , you do n't like looking through it , but can I just look through for you and learn it for you . |
| 13 | Cos when you get your takeaway they erm they carry it to the door for you and give it to you when you get to the door , and they hand |
| 14 | They seem designed to tap into an audience desire to atone for something and resolve it with a bumper sticker morality and a mushy climax . |
| 15 | But our deepest fears should be reserved for everything that keeps us from becoming more human , more personal , or more spiritual . |
| 16 | ‘ We can always have ham and tea and whiskey for anybody that wants it in our house . |
| 17 | To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous . |
| 18 | Remember that it is better to kill the reader with kindness by selecting information for him than to batter him to death in a flurry of factual blows ! |
| 19 | On another occasion his reference to the duty of the Old Testament prophets to denounce God 's judgements to the King and Court was reported to James II , who sent for him and reproached him for the controversial bitterness with which he had spoken . |
| 20 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 21 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 22 | Producer Ken Hyman went in search for him and found him in a bar in Belgravia ‘ as drunk as a skunk ’ . |
| 23 | The presbytery appoints the church officers of the respective parishes to make inquiry for her and to summond her to the succeeding dyets of the presbytery to be held in the isle . |
| 24 | The presbytery appoints the church officers of the respective parishes to make inquiry for her and to summond her to the succeeding dyets of the presbytery to be held in the isle . |
| 25 | She wondered at her own weakness in craving for a man who had professed his love for her and made her with child , only to walk away without even a backward glance . |
| 26 | And Glenn Close 's stubborn and pain-ridden performance as Sunny makes you sad for her and hate her at the same time . |
| 27 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 28 | Stay with the traffic , ’ he reiterated , opening the Falkplan for her and putting it above the glove compartment . |
| 29 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 30 | Sally Varna stepped out of her bath , reluctant to leave the froth of delicately scented bubbles , reached for one of the enormous pink towels the maid had laid out ready for her and wrapped herself in it . |