Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [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 | Two o'clock and I always used to leave work and take him out for an hour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Next morning I checked the typing for errors and sent it back for correction . |
| 8 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 9 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The wire hangers rang together like bells and kept it up for almost a minute . |
| 13 | We 'll leave the Ramsey lad and have you along for guide . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'll come down to Richmond and take you out for dinner , how does that sound ? |
| 17 | A major offensive was launched on Aug. 22 in an attempt to relieve the siege , after the government had abandoned its earlier suggestion that it might evacuate the fort and turn it over for use by the International Red Cross . |
| 18 | The building societies are also under pressure to spend more money buying up empty properties and handing them over for rental . |
| 19 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 22 | American 's name and address and rang him up for one . |
| 23 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I hope they catch this cowardly thug and lock him up for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 27 | He turned to reach down her fleecy cream jacket from the stand in the corner and held it out for her . |
| 28 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 29 | He hurried the will into proper form and brought it down for signature . |
| 30 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |