Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 2 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 3 | When will the right hon. Gentleman give that consistency and leadership to the police and back them for a change ? |
| 4 | He came back and hugged her for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ Just go and lose yerself for a week , son . |
| 6 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 7 | I stole the candle from its socket and sold it for a crust of bread and a stoup of water from an ale wife . |
| 8 | She felt an overwhelming urge to lick her lips and fought it for a while till her treacherous tongue simply shot out — only to be retracted slowly , under Lucenzo 's predatory eyes . |
| 9 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
| 10 | " endeavour to find out a person both to answer to their expectation and those of the Town , and … to superintend and assist him for a while . " |
| 11 | We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence . |
| 12 | He leaned back in his chair and surveyed her for a moment . |
| 13 | Think yourself into it and hold it for a while . |
| 14 | The Scots word ‘ gillie ’ , referring to a stable-boy whose job it is to settle a pony and hold it for a child to ride , is derived from the fey and solitary ghillie dhu . |
| 15 | ‘ You ca n't just rent a villa or a flat overlooking the Med and install yourself for a peppercorn rent like people used to . |
| 16 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 17 | I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out . |
| 18 | Or , it would build 21 district hospitals and run them for a year . |
| 19 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 20 | If we take our budget-fixing example and examine it for a moment , we realise that two separate things may be going on . |
| 21 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 22 | He shall feel the ground give under him , if only once , he shall fall , and men shall see him fall , and know him for a man like other men . |
| 23 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 24 | The attendants folded the clothes and exchanged them for a token , before placing them upon tiers of racks . |
| 25 | I stood and watched them for a while , training my binoculars on them and seeming , now and again in the shifting images of light , to discern structures around them . |
| 26 | Guido smiled , lifting one eyebrow , and watched her for a moment . |
| 27 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 28 | Rebuild the Roman villa and use it for a hydro and health farm . |
| 29 | Means going back in the morning and taking him for a walk |
| 30 | He multiplied the clones in the glasshouse and screened them for a variety of characters ( Fig. 16.3 ) . |