Example sentences of "[verb] i a [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 2 | He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week . |
| 3 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 4 | The Lord has given me a heart for the Filipino people , although my work here finds me alongside so many other people . |
| 5 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 6 | First of all , someone give me a name for the girl . |
| 7 | But he owed me a favour for a little job I 'd done him and I needed somewhere to stash my passport , emergency cash and one or two other goodies . |
| 8 | There 's a couple of friends I know who might be able to give me a bed for the night . |
| 9 | I want everybody to give me a word for the younger , younger girl . |
| 10 | He would pay me a penny for a potato latki , twopence for a fish-cake . |
| 11 | The processor sent me a cheque for the value of the two missing films . |
| 12 | He says erm he said he might er might be able to get me a car for the Christmas holidays |
| 13 | ‘ I came from a poor family in the countryside and communism gave me a chance for a better life . |
| 14 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |
| 15 | The agency have agreed to pay me a retainer for a couple of weeks while I think about what I 'd like to do next . ’ |
| 16 | Have I a nomination for the office of Lord Mayor for the year ? |
| 17 | Have I a nomination for the office of Vice Chair of Council ? |