Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean my dear , I said to Paul , Paul yesterday was was babbling on about if Karen would take him back and I said Paul I shall be extremely displeased if you ever leave this house to go back to Karen , you know o after only being with me for something like three or four weeks , I said you 'll never come back again I said I 'm not going to be messed about like that ! |
| 2 | ‘ Did you want me for something in particular ? ’ |
| 3 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 4 | Silvio would bill me for everything from handkerchiefs for your nose to aspirin for your fever . ’ |
| 5 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 6 | Many times they asked me for them by title . |
| 7 | That 's what that diploma was , you know , paid me for it for that five hun , that 's what it was |
| 8 | The experience of playing with one , or on one , was astonishing ; nothing I had read had prepared me for it at all . |
| 9 | You 'll be aboard my ship when we sail on the Sunday tide , and I 'll warrant you 'll thank me for it in the years to come . |
| 10 | Nuri was one of Egypt 's great landowners and the Khedive considered there was sufficient identity of interest between them for him to be able to use Nuri 's services without fear . |
| 11 | She 'd drawn them for him with eyebrow pencil on yesterday 's newspaper ; he 'd recalled Margaret 's silver propelling pencil and the small notebook she always carried . |
| 12 | Whatever the merits of their looks , enough customers loved them for them to be sold out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 15 | Mum had found them for me in the house at Lochgair . |
| 16 | They 're locked in here , so she 's gon na get them for me in a minute no worry Is a drink snowball , she thinks It might not be . |
| 17 | We get them from other people by communication ; and we get them for ourselves by thinking , or by observation , or both . |
| 18 | So let us settle them for you by Standing Order or Direct Debit . |
| 19 | Although the KDP were also in revolt at the same time , there were too many differences between them for there to be any prospect of co-ordinated action . |
| 20 | It were real they were really good blankets my mother had bought them for us for er er wedding present |
| 21 | Yeah , the chemist may not have those in stock but they 'll be able to get you for them within twenty four hours , you 're |
| 22 | He went on to quote Michelet : ‘ A woman must breathe on you for you to be a man . |
| 23 | As I understand it Chair , what you 're saying is , that there are , at three there is a , a request for an exclusion of press photographers , but the convenience of press photography we 're saying that instead of taking immediately so that we 'd have to call them back here for the even later , we 're asking you for it to be taken at the end with the rest of exclusion |
| 24 | All jigs , tools , dies , patterns , moulds and gauges manufactured or supplied by you for us in connection with this order shall become our property and shall be retained by you until disposal instructions are given by us to you which instructions shall be complied with forthwith . |
| 25 | And Lawrence confirmed yesterday : ‘ I would not discount making a move if I could get him for something like £700,000 . ’ |
| 26 | I think we bought him for something like 650,000 . |
| 27 | Tom Fearon keeps him for me at the livery stables . |
| 28 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
| 29 | wanted a week somewhere would you have him for us with Angela ? |
| 30 | The presbyterie taking the heignanseness of the crime in their consideration doe in odium fanti at terrorum allis appoint Mr. David Sympson his parish minister publickly to rebuke him for it before the congregation and then to take occasion to admonish the people against the evil of such practices and they recommend to the Baillie of Ila to put the acts of parliament against charmers in execution . |