Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 She found the French mysterious and fascinating and liked to listen to them talking among each other and me to take them off for her afterwards .
2 She was hysterical and distraught and I took her through for my wife to comfort her before telephoning the police . ’
3 I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better
4 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
5 I knew my mother would want me to stay and I put it off for months .
6 ‘ Early on in that , the hero 's homeless and somebody puts him up for the night . ’
7 For one thing I learned to cope with it better and then , well , I started growing and nobody singled me out for ridicule any more .
8 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
9 Self-select P E Ps are a little bit different , is that when you , you the managers give you a choice of shares and it 's rather like pulling the handle on the one-armed bandit , you say right , I 'll start with er er I C I and I 'll back that up with B A T , and , and you leave them in for as long as you want , and you pay a charge when you move the shares , so you can actually control the P E P .
10 and er , they sent her er bouquet and a card for her birthday , she was seventy , and she wrote a letter back and she passed it around for every body to read , and there was , in her writing , which was very clear
11 She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers .
12 Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview .
13 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
14 ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests .
15 And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days .
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 You wear the flag and everybody slags you off for being a Nazi .
18 Just as Christ also loved the church , and he gave himself up for it .
19 That was me and Desmond , we duplicated them and he printed them out for something like £150 each .
20 The first king of the Franks established titles 1 to 62 [ for 65 ? ] , and he set them out for judgement .
21 And it fucked it up for about a second or three seconds afterwards .
22 Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’
23 I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian .
24 ‘ He had three years with John Edwards , but we bought him back for 5,600gns a year last June and he will be with me for the rest of his days . ’
25 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 . ’
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