Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 2 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 3 | Invited them out for a drink ? ’ |
| 4 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 5 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 7 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 8 | " He asked you in for a drink without asking me ? " |
| 9 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 10 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 13 | And er Betty called me in for a cup of coffee but and I was there , I think , for over two hours . |
| 14 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 15 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 16 | and they grassed it over for a children 's pre pre playground , now they want to turn it back , and extend the car park . |
| 17 | A few other pilots have flown Lindsey 's Corsair — Ray and Mark Hanna of the Old Flying Machine Company , Hoof Proudfoot , Chief Pilot for The Fighter Collection , who flew it out for a display in Ireland this year . |
| 18 | Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink . |
| 19 | Woody Allen passed him over for a musical . |
| 20 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 21 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 22 | So they kept him in for a cat instead , but Jessie wanted a , then Jessie , she could 've just love a fluffy white , so . |
| 23 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But at the same time I realise it means they 're basically trying to control my music which I did n't expect ’ As for taking him seriously , American composer Philip Glass offered to do a 12-inch remix of Hey Music Lover after Moore took him out for a night in the clubs . |
| 26 | The brave tot , who has been battling leukaemia since he was six weeks old , was bouncing with life yesterday as mum Michelle took him out for a treat . |
| 27 | His confinement was not over-rigorous , as ‘ the worthy jailer Smith ’ took him out for a walk while he was there ; and by 30th August he was back at home in Ambleside , having found Anne and the children as well as he could expect . |
| 28 | I took him out for a walk and he went straight into a lamp post , ’ said Ray , of Clarence Chare , Newton Aycliffe . |
| 29 | A couple of months ago he took her out for a meal and she tried to kiss him . |
| 30 | We took it over for a Sunday night , hiring it , promoting the gig ourselves , pushing out a lot of handbills . |