Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Me an me sister , we thought we were then he says come inside and sing it for our , somebody , you know . |
| 2 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 3 | Or you could do what my elderly neighbour does : every time she feels like decorating she pays a neighbour 's student son to come in and do it for her . |
| 4 | I get a maid to come in and do it for me . |
| 5 | That 's the idea cos when it 's the exam I ca n't come in and do it for you or show you how to do it . |
| 6 | You 'd be employing , you 'd be employing builders to come in and do it for you . |
| 7 | He went in and fed them for us sometimes , to give us a break , and would phone us up if he thought there were any difficulties . |
| 8 | You take it for granted one of the maids will come in and tidy it for you . |
| 9 | She wants me to take them down and swap them for one . |
| 10 | Do n't wait for Personnel to come along and do it for you . |
| 11 | But instead of meeting each problem separately and assessing it for what it is , the anorexic thinks she has a master-plan , designed to solve them all at one stroke . |
| 12 | The Chronicle C text records that in 1028 Cnut sailed from England to Norway with fifty ships ; D and E add that he drove Olaf away and took it for himself . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Many of them were aware of him and the job he does , but the first thing they did was to rush over and ask him for his autograph . ’ |
| 14 | No , chases it twice and then Lucy takes on and eats it for him . |
| 15 | I 'll build the fire up a bit more and heat it for you now . |
| 16 | He said and we 'll take it up and repair it for you . |
| 17 | Knock on her door at 3 a.m. for a leg massage and I swear she would get up and do it for you , though she might swear a little under her breath ! |
| 18 | just the , so we can put the new filter in , only they fret wants cleaning , I can do that , if you 'll get up and undo it for me |
| 19 | It would take too long to get the computer up and do it for you , but erm you can take that away with you if , if you like , that just makes the same points I 've been making now , but using a computer simulator . |
| 20 | Mr Wishart stood up and opened it for her , handing her the wicker basket which seemed surprisingly light ; the old lady stepped off the train onto a now deserted platform . |
| 21 | Erm , if there 's something needs doing extra you just ask the person who 's best for the job to sort it out and to do it for you . |
| 22 | it 's bad enough in your house , they have to physically go out and do it for somebody else . |
| 23 | The agency takes on any kind of job — you just name the subject and give us some indication of the kind of thing you want to know , and then we go out and get it for you . ’ |
| 24 | By taking V2s from here , from the mountains , shipping them back and using them for their own experiments . |
| 25 | At the end of the question period , refocus attention on yourself through repeating your main points , wishing everyone well and thanking them for their attention . |
| 26 | ‘ Shall we bring the cat in here and hear him for ourselves ? ’ said Lady Blemley . |
| 27 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 28 | ‘ If only the people who criticise it from afar would actually come here and see it for themselves . |
| 29 | If only the people who criticise it from afar would actually come here and see it for themselves . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't have to say please and thank you for my milk cos I pour straight on my dinner , did n't I ? |