Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was enough money in her savings account to see her through for a while .
2 The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum .
3 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 .
4 Nero sends his luv and wants to put you in for the chariot racing next time .
5 She rocked the baby in her arms , refusing to put her down for a minute , and she sang snatches of lullabies she remembered her mother singing so many years ago .
6 If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter .
7 We want properly maintained rights of way and better information about the resources needed to sort them out for the benefit of all .
8 I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans .
9 ‘ I forgot to put it out for the birds yesterday morning . ’
10 We 're going to put him up for a few days .
11 She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes .
12 Not going to pay me back for the bloody nose , even if you did nearly knock my head off ? ’
13 If I was n't able to admit it to some old woman I 'd never see again and who did n't matter a scrap to me , how was I going to face it out for the rest of my life ?
14 All right then well thank you Simon that 's a broad thank you and and thank you very much for your money as well a hundred and fifty quid he gave that 's loads of dosh er to come in for the day as well and I 'm going to take you out for a a nice lunch in a bit when he can wonder around have a poke around everywhere this afternoon too so should be all right should n't it that ?
15 After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night .
16 set to shoot it out for a good cause
17 I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent .
18 Her Uncle Tom is delighted and arranges to take her out for a slap up meal .
19 Then : ‘ You 'll have to let me out for the Jubilee .
20 Granville Again was out of form with a few niggling problems , so after talking to Michael I decided to let him down for a break then bring him back to his peak for one day — this day . ’
21 Do n't put it away , you 'll have to leave it out for the week .
22 But maybe the leaders , Brice Lalonde and Antoine Waechter , will have to fight it out for the leadership of a united ‘ green ’ party before a real alliance can be forged .
23 He might even hand it over tonight when he called to take her out for a meal .
24 The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more .
25 If you know you can not deal with an upsetting confrontation , try to put it off for a short while until you feel calmer .
26 Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth .
27 Sometimes I managed to block them out for a while , then something would happen to trigger them back — a comment or something on TV .
28 We can say we 're going to have to keep you off for a bit longer yet .
29 He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds .
30 She could n't go out and play with the other kids , she had to take him round for a walk
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