Example sentences of "[pers pn] for instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Why not approach us through the proper services , through an agent , me for instance ? |
| 3 | You 'd do ‘ tie-ins ’ with the local shops : you 'd sell the Paris idea to them for instance . |
| 4 | That 's helpful for us to know because maybe even would want to take one of them for instance , that 's already been described |
| 5 | Had she for instance dictated that the partner should offer resistance this would have been a relatively crude way of ‘ tightening ’ the structure compared with instructing the listener to be in a ‘ counsellor ’ role . |
| 6 | Were you for instance more comfortable with a Mother fixation , I might give you a Catholic programme or a Russian Orthodox icon system . |
| 7 | ‘ What I mean is do you for instance know the three-times table ? ’ |
| 8 | If not erm then if your spouse died the day after you for instance , you had a road accident or something like that and you 've left it all to her , she 'll take it all and then it 'll add it would be added to her estate it as well and make the inheritance tax bill bigger . |
| 9 | But that 's the same as if you willed spouse had died before you for instance , and you were the second of two to die and she had n't or she might have everything to the children and you still got a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , you ca n't avoid the inheritance tax in those circumstances . |
| 10 | But on actual safeguarding of assets , erm do you for instance with separate custodians , do you have any views about the custody of your schemes assets ? |
| 11 | Right , so I mean obviously if there 's anything that comes up as you go along I 've got ta be able to you know you and I , I 'll just chat it through , but when it comes to things like er me talk to you , sales talk to you for instance about a comparative question , you would n't know what I was talking about would you ? |
| 12 | right I mean what would you for instance think if it 's possible , if I can prove that right |
| 13 | But it also has built in a Help facility , teaching aids , so that if at some point in the middle of developing your program you forget something , you can ask the system erm to tell you for instance how to use one of its facilities , and you can get onto the screen some information about that , and then carry on where you were , and you can switch easily between different modes . |
| 14 | So we for instance will enable you to use decision support tools against any of that information in a seamless manner . |
| 15 | Similarly , Olson 's claims for literacy , that it for instance ‘ unambiguously represents meanings ’ , turn out to rest on descriptions of the ‘ British essayists ’ of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 16 | Yeah I mean there 's no point in re-roofing it for instance . |
| 17 | Has he for instance consulted them with their rights under the Tenants Charter ? |
| 18 | Within living memory , like mine for instance , it was possible to dial numbers beginning D.O.U … . |
| 19 | The little booklet , which is turning up in the oddest of places , tells us for instance that ‘ Butter is a natural product — alternatives are different . ’ |