Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to teach potential students the value of laundry work you make them do it for a while . |
| 2 | Whenever I am working with someone I know and trust I ask them for a quick trim . |
| 3 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 4 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 5 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 6 | ‘ I expect he did it for the insurance , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 7 | The banks want us to pay them for the privilege of making their money from our money . |
| 8 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 9 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 10 | All right , but let me stop you for a moment , there . |
| 11 | They let me hold her for a few minutes and then they took her away upstairs to Special Care . |
| 12 | ‘ First let me thank you for the great job you are doing with the ‘ Nottingham Graduate ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 14 | Let 'em rough it for a week . |
| 15 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
| 16 | When I was fifteen we rented a rough shoot of about a thousand acres on Stowe Hill , part of the Stanage estate ; Guy Rogers let us have it for a fiver . |
| 17 | They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison . |
| 18 | Prince Charles rang her every day , suggesting she join him for a walk or a barbecue . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you like me to leave you for a while ? ’ |
| 20 | I would like you to wear it for a while . ’ |
| 21 | Now look it asks you for a certain number of things It says As The average does n't it ? |
| 22 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 23 | I know you do it for the good of us but I still like to buy you something as a thank you . |
| 24 | you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in |
| 25 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 26 | tell her thank you for the combine . |
| 27 | He was asking me to respect him for an astute and informed observer , an impartial and honest man . |
| 28 | No matter how worthwhile a project seems we attack it for the hidden and sinister purposes behind it . |
| 29 | If I rush it unsettles me for the whole session , and I invariably feel as though I have not done something right . |
| 30 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |