Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupitres were adapted from these structures , although it is still uncertain who first employed them commercially for remuage . |
| 2 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 3 | It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success . |
| 4 | Well , it would serve them right for treating her like a baby . |
| 5 | ‘ Put them on for me , Conroy , ’ she said , leaning back on both hands against the dressing-table . |
| 6 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 7 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 8 | Call them on for more details . |
| 9 | But we do take some of them on for work experience — we have to remember that we 'll always need a pool of new photographers to choose from . ’ |
| 10 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 11 | Almost imperceptibly the practice began of signing them on for voyages to Britain , Europe and North America so that the numbers of Chinamen and Lascars on ships based in these areas gradually increased and with it the Chinese , Indian and half-caste population of such ports as Cardiff and Liverpool . |
| 12 | He actually likes rolling them on for me . |
| 13 | I keep them on for the programme . |
| 14 | The centre forward , whom they nicknamed Ossie , wore his sideburns long and his shorts even longer — but at least he kept them on for the duration . |
| 15 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 16 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 17 | Never mind I 'll sew them on for you , I hate sewing but I 'll do it for you Mary Lou . |
| 18 | That 's what I 'd like to know said Gwendoline smugly , six buttons all ripped off I 'm putting them on for Mary Lou because I 'm so sorry any one should play at such a dirty trick . |
| 19 | Go to a pushbike shop they whip them off and whip them on for you you buy , you know , if you go out and buy one then just take wheel with you they 'll stick them straight on . |
| 20 | These are the pictures which interest me most for their complex attitude to the feminine . |
| 21 | Foreigners ( of whom there are quite a few at the UN ) can do nothing right for Mr Coleman . |
| 22 | I put it back in the trunk , disappointed that there was nothing right for me to wear and wondering what I was going to do , for I wanted to go out with Sally . |
| 23 | This is not as frightful as it may sound : with self-build projects the council inspectors are usually very helpful , although you should n't badger him/her relentlessly for advice , and employing reputable tradesmen should eliminate any problems with outside labour . |
| 24 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
| 25 | As conditions were calm and my position at that time left me right for a downwind left join in an easterly direction , I elected to land this way and flew a normal downwind base and approach . |
| 26 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh well , serves me right for being nosey . |
| 28 | I 'll have a bath an' all an' my brither-in-law 'll see me right for the gear . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That serves me right for going out to fetch it fresh . ’ |
| 30 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |