Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty adjusted them for him . |
| 2 | The Sheikha usually made them for her . |
| 3 | Moreover , we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it . |
| 4 | A physicist colleague has kindly calculated them for me . |
| 5 | There is usually little they can do and , even if they could , the imprisoned creatures are too demented to thank them for it . |
| 6 | He wrote back to thank me for it . |
| 7 | she said yeah , she , erm , the reason that women who does the earrings could n't make them for me , was that she buys all the parts , well the flower earrings she makes , she buys all these parts and she ex assembles them which ever parts you want |
| 8 | The practical consequence of this must be that the individual who in his personal development has not mastered his basic instinctual drives but finds instead that the state masters them for him experiences none of the narcissistic gratifications of self-mastery but all of the privations which the agencies of state control enforce on him . |
| 9 | I saw that Mrs Fairfax approved of my correct behaviour , and I knew that he respected me for it . |
| 10 | Cos she was trying to find a , a reason or an excuse to sue them for it . |
| 11 | Many times they asked me for them by title . |
| 12 | You asked me for them . |
| 13 | Because I I mean I because she had asked me originally to keep it but I keep mine all separate until you asked me for it . |
| 14 | And er she asked me for it . |
| 15 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 16 | Marie yelled after me to wait but I did n't want to talk to her about it so I chucked my sandwich-box over to her and told her she could eat them for me . |
| 17 | Alright , well I 'll eat them for you then . |
| 18 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 19 | I got them for me , I 'd get them for me daughter but I do n't know if she likes them |
| 20 | You checked them for me did n't you ? |
| 21 | and er they had to call us in , well Dick went out and er I think it was actually two separate visits so they must of , cos they 're refurbishing the place you see so they must of moved into one office and thought oh you know this do n't work , move into another office the day after , well this do n't work either and he , he actually did two separate visits , whether they 'll actually bill them for it I do n't know , but I mean it 's a minimum of an hour in both cases so |
| 22 | we do n't buy them for him . |
| 23 | I think you 'll look terrific in those hotpants , so let me buy them for you ? ’ |
| 24 | She records them , acknowledges them — unless I 'm being incommunicado for some reason — and replays them for me later . |
| 25 | These are acceptable , but the witch who , at ‘ by the pricking of my thumbs ’ , held up his thumbs and twiddled them for us all to check out was excessive . |
| 26 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |
| 27 | Grab them for me Kyle , cos I 've got that tape round me . |
| 28 | I hope for your sake that those who provide them for you are as careful in following the rules as you should be when creating your own . |
| 29 | God forgive me for it ! ’ |
| 30 | If you are using a removal firm ask them to provide tea-chests for all the small items , and they will pack them for you . |