Example sentences of "i [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 2 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 3 | At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea . |
| 4 | ‘ Let me in for Chris ' sake and I 'll tell you . ’ |
| 5 | Do you think you could find anyone in your village who 'd take me in for that ? |
| 6 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 7 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 8 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 9 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's get out of here before MacLane shows and tries to pull me in for this . ’ |
| 12 | And skipping the Weight Watchers classes the missus put me in for . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The least you could do is invite me in for a coffee . ’ |
| 15 | And er Betty called me in for a cup of coffee but and I was there , I think , for over two hours . |
| 16 | put me in for a lovely red for me . |
| 17 | see through me with a voice of rival , rival calm when she called me in for tea , have a go |
| 18 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |
| 19 | Well , well put me in for |
| 20 | Just remember next year , you do not put me in for |
| 21 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Put me down for picketing , Bob , ’ says Robyn . |
| 23 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 24 | You 've put me down for holidays in September and I 've been telling you about the cruise in October for months . |
| 25 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 26 | I 'm just can you put me down for some paracetamols for the pain |
| 27 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 28 | ‘ Put me down for a fiver both ways . ’ |
| 29 | She might have put me down for talking . |
| 30 | She could have put me down for talking |