Example sentences of "and [verb] he for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " 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 . " |
| 4 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 5 | I said , you may go and see him for a minute , he 's out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Means going back in the morning and taking him for a walk |
| 9 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 10 | After a time , his doctor friend had seen enough of his extremity and took him for a drink in the airport bar . |
| 11 | Yesterday , two Norfolk men who kidnapped a prime suspect and took him for a ride were sent to prison for five years and apparently the suspect did not even get a police caution . |
| 12 | She sat and rocked him for a while until he felt all right again and then went upstairs and dressed herself in a low-backed , jade green jumpsuit and gold pumps and gold hoop ear-rings , and felt exotic . |