Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 2 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 3 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 4 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 5 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 6 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 7 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 8 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 9 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 10 | ‘ Then why did you ask me for a book on Reptiles ? ’ |
| 11 | What did you ask me for a fag for , then ? ’ |
| 12 | Did you ask him for a drink ? ’ |
| 13 | Did they take you for a week and show you |
| 14 | Did they charge you for the ? |
| 15 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 16 | Did he take her for a fool ? |
| 17 | As we left I thanked her for the ‘ nice tea ’ and off we went . |
| 18 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 19 | his school sports and said I did it for the sake of the children ! |
| 20 | They sued the well-known actress Constance Collier for the £16 9s 3d which they said she owed them for the flowers which her maid had ordered by telephone to be delivered to the Savoy Theatre . |
| 21 | We had many chats and on several occasions I had him join me for a sandwich and coffee at the Georgia Grill . |