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Example sentences for "you for"

  • That being the case, Sir Percy, what say you to no longer wasting the few chances which are left to you for safety?

  • When you come out do not look to the right or left, but make straight for home; I'll not lose sight of you for a moment, and as soon as possible will overtake you.

  • Nay, that you shall not; since you have begun, Have at you for a bitter jest or two.

  • Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies, which I will be ever to pay and yet pay still.

  • I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me.

  • But I can't afford to give it you for that, of course.

  • Mamma, it is you for reading us," cried Edward, slapping his thigh.

  • God hath sent down to you for food, have ye made unlawful and lawful?

  • But woe be to you for what ye utter of God!

  • Fear God, then, and obey me: No reward ask I of you for this: my reward is of the Lord of the Worlds alone.

  • Say: I ask no wage of you for this, nor am I one who intermeddleth.

  • SAY: No pay do I ask of you for this:23 Verily it is no other than the teaching for all creatures.

  • I would have found means to convey my apologies to you for my behaviour on that occasion, but I have been at the mercy of my enemies.

  • She loves you, and believes in you, and will kneel to you for forgiveness by-and-by.

  • De Pyrmont, on my honour, I will stand by you for ever if you will help me to get her away.

  • I can't help feeling a kindness to you for it,' said Jacopo.

  • Well, I haven't laid eyes on you for a dog's age.

  • It never pays to count on you for twenty-four hours.

  • You've given me a chance to estimate myself on a new basis, and I'm much obliged to you for that.

  • I would never have come to you for that," she cried, "never!

  • Good-by,--and I am ever so much obliged to you for bringing me here.

  • I trust in your friendship, and I have an inward certainty that I shall be indebted to you for my honour as well as for my life.

  • Casanova, I am happy, and I love to be indebted to you for my happiness.

  • I accept them gratefully, and to be indebted to you for such a service makes me truly happy.

  • I am not accountable to you for my actions.

  • It was then that I resolved to come to you for aid.

  • Sir, the servant bade me come to you for money; she has no more, and had to get credit at the chemist's.

  • Now that other is accused of murder, and you are his judge; and I find myself between you two, praying to you for him.

  • What do you keep that poor fellow Clarence Fane dangling in attendance on you for?

  • Look here, you keep the keys already, but the new fellow at the farm and all the rest of them shall account to you for everything--Gregorio and all.

  • And you shall possess it, every man in like manner as his brother: concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it to your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for a possession.

  • I will accept of you for an odour of sweetness, when I shall have brought you out from the people, and shall have gathered you out of the lands into which you are scattered, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

  • You are mistaken," said he; "I have been under many obligations to you for a long time past.

  • Break up at once and come to me, and be happy without disquietude; all is well, and my heart belongs to you for life.

  • I must speak to you for a few minutes, but I will not detain you long.

  • Now, I must apply to you for information.

  • Fanny sighed, and said, "I cannot see things as you do; but I ought to believe you to be right rather than myself, and I am very much obliged to you for trying to reconcile me to what must be.

  • I assure you the Snake is infinitely obliged to you for a great many well-written and socially exciting paragraphs.

  • You know that it is you for whom I care most, and that all the world would be empty to me without you!

  • If Sir Francis Lennox wrote that scandalous paragraph the greater rascal he,--and the more shame to you for inserting it.

  • I am greatly indebted to you for sending me very many most valuable works published at your institution.

  • I know it is an honour to have a paper in the "Transactions," and I am much obliged to you for proposing it, but I should greatly prefer to publish in the "Journal.

  • Your fact is an interesting one, and I am very much obliged to you for communicating it to me.

  • I am very much obliged to you for telling me the results of your foliaceous tour, and I am glad you are drawing up an account for the Royal Society.

  • I am especially obliged to you for sending me Haast's communications.

  • I am particularly obliged to you for telling me about the Dijon bones.

  • My dear Darwin, I have had no news of you for a long time, but I earnestly hope you are better.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    army was; butyric acid; you all; you dare; you intend; you mean; you please; you think; you wish; young artists; young children; young creature; young lambs; young madam; young miss; young tree; your correspondent; your country; your eyes; your father; your grandfather; your hearts; your power; your reverence; your service; your sister