Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
4 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
5 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
6 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
7 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
8 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
9 | Yeah I mean she for a bit she was the party was n't she ? |
10 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
11 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
12 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
13 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
14 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
15 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
16 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
17 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
18 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
19 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
20 | ‘ For every improvement to the guest-house , I make something for the local people , ’ Anne said . |
21 | ‘ I make them for the shops to sell , ’ she told Virginia . |
22 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
23 | ‘ You are so right , ’ the stranger said , always with that look of persiflage upon her face , ‘ there is nothing to a degree , unless you are a complete clod , I got mine for a bet — ’ |
24 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
25 | All the perennials are bought in containers and I grow them for a year in their pots to see how they cope with the conditions , then I plant them out in the garden . " |
26 | But I do n't think in gender terms at all when I interview someone for a job . |
27 | But might I trouble you for a cup of hot water ? ’ |
28 | He went and bought a pack of cigarettes from the machine behind him , searched his pockets , then asked : ‘ Could I trouble you for a light , Miss ? ’ |
29 | ‘ Could I trouble you for a receipt ? ’ |
30 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |