Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can be emotionally dependent on a parent , calling home daily , looking to them for decisions or allowing parents ’ wishes and desires to come before one 's partner . |
| 2 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 3 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 4 | You said that in our newsletter , because our checkout manager said that she 's found life extremely difficult with all the changes of shifts , and that in her department they have lots of problems , so she 's got like a pro forma checkout news , and she asks them for things that go into this , that they , you know , that they want bringing up , and specific things that they 're having difficulty with . |
| 5 | if you 'd of gone to them for advice and say which is the better buy , which will was wash better and why , you know , I want I want |
| 6 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 7 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ If she asks you for money and shows you the letters , you can say that you did n't write them . ’ |
| 9 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 10 | I refer to your recent application for the above post and am pleased to invite you for interview as follows : |
| 11 | Suppose one of your subordinates keeps telephoning you for advice and help several times a day thus interrupting your work . |
| 12 | He helped Ratagan away , the big man leaning on him for support and cursing his lameness . |
| 13 | They rushed him through to Resus , and got him going again , and while Kathleen put the monitor leads on Jack checked him for injuries and ordered X-rays . |
| 14 | ‘ However , the next council meeting the IAAF will consider the possibility of commencing proceedings against him for libel and taking further disciplinary action . ’ |
| 15 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 16 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 17 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 18 | He had n't seen him for years but knew of his bass playing . |
| 19 | He then sold the timber to E. B wrongfully removed some of the timber and E obtained judgment against him for conversion but took no steps to enforce his judgment , because B was insolvent . |
| 20 | When he was a lad they used to tie him up in the cellar , starve him for days and read the Bible to him as food for his soul . |
| 21 | Their goalkeeper , Neville Southall , was preparing to clear the ball upfield and making no haste about it when the referee , George Tyson , booked him for time-wasting and awarded Forest the indirect free-kick which was to decide the match . |
| 22 | The guards search him for weapons and open the door to the gallery . |
| 23 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 24 | I thanked him for dinner and said how much I 'd enjoyed myself . |
| 25 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 26 | But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up . |
| 27 | " If the lad takes her then he must take her for passion and hope it stays hot : " |
| 28 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 29 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 30 | We done it for Kerry and done it for her , Kerry left home sorted all the house out and bought all the stuff back and give the rest away ! |