Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’
2 He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’
3 ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’
4 Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display .
5 Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep .
6 Invited them out for a drink ? ’
7 I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me .
8 You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’
9 She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea .
10 She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch .
11 He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’
12 So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship .
13 I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad .
14 Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’
15 I did n't consider the possibility of turning back to the runway behind me , but at the time I thought that a very low-level circuit to the left would bring me round for a landing on an adjacent runway .
16 Put me down for a fiver both ways . ’
17 Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me
18 Have n't seen you around for a while . ’
19 I have n't seen you around for a couple of days . "
20 Let it carry him along for a bit longer .
21 I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting displayed the facts well , and it was perverse of Conservative Members to pick him up for a slip of the tongue when he gave an incorrect figure , which it is relatively easy to do .
22 Let him out for a roar round .
23 It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while .
24 made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door
25 Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again .
26 Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake .
27 There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear .
28 Sometimes , if the screws are happy , they let us out for a while , and sometimes we have exercise after dinner .
29 " He asked you in for a drink without asking me ? "
30 They never were , and war in 1879 cut their value , many holders selling them off for a pittance .
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