Example sentences of "[noun] i [vb past] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the winner I rode for him at York . ’ |
| 2 | Some nerve , and of course I went for it . |
| 3 | I thought was one of the other books I ordered for you with regard to what they call it |
| 4 | The words I dreamed for you , |
| 5 | He probably reprogrammed the courier I sent for her , insisted on a hidden message-box to record her arrival , the whole works . |
| 6 | It would be most upsetting if Captain Auden were to hear I had shown you the implant I designed for him . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 'll find they are an improvement on the last place I provided for you . |
| 8 | One evening in November I waited for him to finish his day 's work . |
| 9 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |
| 10 | There were also a number of questions I had for them . |
| 11 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 12 | It 's the name I had for you when you were a baby . ’ |
| 13 | He eased me into a role he had only half-consciously cast me for without my noticing it and , by emphasizing the physical attraction I had for him , he made me feel imperative . |
| 14 | I believe those murders had something to do with the race I rode for you . ’ |
| 15 | Resisting making myself bankrupt , he nearly said , by not buying a gold locket I coveted for you — delicate — beautiful — too bloody expensive . |
| 16 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 17 | Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him . |
| 18 | I make a determined effort to rummage around in the jumble of our years together for some of the intensity of feeling I had for her . |
| 19 | We discussed a man I nursed for him about seven years ago in a London nursing home . |
| 20 | Or the poster I produced for you of the doves of peace made with human hands . |
| 21 | It is really my own it was n't given by the government I paid for it . |
| 22 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 23 | The life-size herd of wild boar I made for it out of cement , roots , mud and loose rubbish such as broken rock and hedge clippings , launched my career five years ago . |
| 24 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for you , Mikhail . |
| 25 | But Martin kept putting me on him at home and in the end I fell for it . |
| 26 | But Martin kept putting me on him at home and in the end I fell for it . |
| 27 | ‘ To discuss a patient I nursed for him years ago . |
| 28 | She liked the clothes I supplied for her and we now collaborate on her wardrobe . ’ |
| 29 | It came to pass that when the Lord had ascended from the water , the whole fountain of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him , and said to him , ‘ My Son , in all the prophets I looked for thee , that thou mightest come and I might rest in thee ; for thou art my rest , thou art my Son , my first-born , who art king for evermore . ’ |
| 30 | When you stayed away from me , I would try in vain to will you back beside me : then , long after the dinner I waited for you to share but had to eat alone , I would wander out into the stony streets , hoping to bump into you , to glimpse you sitting in a bar or on a park bench : |