Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't help smiling at that ; she still had n't quite forgiven me for the fact that her remedy had n't been effective . |
| 2 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 3 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 4 | I would like to see them for the Falls . |
| 5 | I would like to see them for the Shankill . |
| 6 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 7 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 8 | For myself , I wish to say to men that as long as they associate me with an idea of ‘ woman ’ drawn from the past , or suppose that a model for gender relations is to be found in that past , they have failed to see me for the person who I am , or to envisage what equality might mean . |
| 9 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 10 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 11 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 12 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 13 | The man looked at the boys as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 14 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 15 | Julius looked at her jeans and T-shirt , as if seeing them for the first time . |
| 16 | Eddie 's gaze ran on round the room , taking in , as if seeing them for the first time , the stool and easel , the framed reproduction Leonardo drawings on the walls , the low divan bed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He glared up at me as though seeing me for the first time . |
| 19 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 20 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 21 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
| 22 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 23 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 24 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 25 | Last season , Dungannon won the Ulster League which qualified them for a ‘ round-robin ’ series with the other provincial winners in a bid to gain entry to the AIL . |
| 26 | Simmer them for an hour . |
| 27 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 28 | The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days . |
| 29 | I 'd like if I may , to take this opportunity of paying tribute to the er helpful , cooperative attitude that the auditing practices board displayed in what were often long and very complex discussions and to thank them for the clear and helpful statement with which they shortly er plan to issue er to er accompany these order and to bring them into practical effect . |
| 30 | On the day Sir Hubert arrived in Rangoon he sent for me to thank me for the way in which this delicate matter had been handled . |