Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 2 | Have n't seen you around for a while . ’ |
| 3 | I have n't seen you around for a couple of days . " |
| 4 | Yeah , well I 've still got the other two but I do n't know whether Brian and Pauline are going to want them back , I mean they 've just , I 've had them back for a craft fair . |
| 5 | In fact we have n't got you down for a paper at all in this class yet I do n't think so if you 'd like to do one for us you can see me about it afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I 've had it around for a lot longer than I care to tell you . |
| 7 | But lines like ‘ It 's a bit hard , your Highness , I have n't had it off for a year ’ , when muttered by a grubby servant referring to his shoe , come just as easily from Tony Slattery as they ever did from Sid James . |
| 8 | Earnest me anyway slightly hankered alter another Italian boy , Joseph , who had invited me out for a walk . |
| 9 | Iain had invited him over for a meal . |
| 10 | He would n't have asked her out for a meal if he did n't like her , she reasoned . |
| 11 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 12 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 13 | We have n't put him down for a nursery school- ! |
| 14 | Some exciting advice — relayed by Andrew from a knowing uncle in the City — had jacked it up for a time , before an even bigger hole was left gaping by the failure of that magical investment . |
| 15 | We 've taken it over for a week or so . |
| 16 | The children did n't understand at first , but when it was later explained to them , they were enormously proud that she should have singled them out for a visit . |