Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 2 | He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him . |
| 3 | She took her arms away from round her kids ' shoulders and held them out for him . |
| 4 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |
| 5 | To his surprise , Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor . |
| 6 | Next morning I checked the typing for errors and sent it back for correction . |
| 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 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 9 | The wire hangers rang together like bells and kept it up for almost a minute . |
| 10 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 11 | Barron 's case is based mainly on these elements : [ 1 ] Immediately after the crash some members of Gravier 's family came from Mexico City to the site to identify his body and rushed it off for cremation . |
| 12 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 13 | American 's name and address and rang him up for one . |
| 14 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 15 | He turned to reach down her fleecy cream jacket from the stand in the corner and held it out for her . |
| 16 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 17 | He hurried the will into proper form and brought it down for signature . |
| 18 | We sold him for £100,000 to race in America and bought him back for £25,000 when he did nothing over there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 21 | all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens . |