Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 2 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 3 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 4 | I 'm sorry , Ellie ; I let you in for a hard time , did n't I ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why do n't I take you out for a nice dinner this evening ? |
| 6 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 7 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 8 | I took him out for a walk and he went straight into a lamp post , ’ said Ray , of Clarence Chare , Newton Aycliffe . |
| 9 | ‘ While you shower and change before I take you out for a meal . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |
| 11 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 12 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 13 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 14 | In desperation she dragged him out for a stroll on the Heath . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 16 | You 're afraid to ask you landlord for a repair because if you do , are you setting yourself up for a rent increase ? |
| 17 | She looked alert and approachable , just the type of person we were looking for , so we asked her in for an interview . ’ |
| 18 | We do n't know what he 's like yet — would n't it be better to ask him for an odd Sunday first before we let ourselves in for a course of sermons ? ’ |
| 19 | We took it over for a Sunday night , hiring it , promoting the gig ourselves , pushing out a lot of handbills . |
| 20 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 21 | Er , we said something about for a , we do n't want to set a time period on it do we ? |
| 22 | ‘ How about letting me take you out for a pub lunch ? |
| 23 | Sometimes , if the screws are happy , they let us out for a while , and sometimes we have exercise after dinner . |
| 24 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 25 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 26 | Let's face it , all she 'd have to do would be to sit and let him sleep it off for a while , it was probably what the kid needed most , and he 'd never remember anything different . |
| 27 | and they grassed it over for a children 's pre pre playground , now they want to turn it back , and extend the car park . |
| 28 | ‘ You do n't mind ? ’ she asked , thinking it more than good of him to use his morning squiring her around , without him letting himself in for an afternoon of more of the same ! |
| 29 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 30 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |