Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 2 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 3 | But he was either moody and difficult , or else in tearing spirits , playing with the children and upsetting them so that their mother would come and whip them afterwards for the noise they made . |
| 4 | For him it would simply have been a matter of bringing the girl along , telling my mother she was coming with them and paying her handsomely for the hardship occasioned . ’ |
| 5 | In the early days , the salesman behind the counter had served to promote the merits of different products , and to wrap them carefully for the customer 's homeward journey . |
| 6 | On return to the farm in the late afternoon there was likely to be a further round of gossip and conversation while grooming the horses and bedding them down for the night . |
| 7 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 8 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , why do n't you come up and take her out for the day . |
| 10 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 11 | But like that A lot of families had them and kept them just for the family . |
| 12 | Indeed , Mr Pocklington and his ilk would take small cannon onto a suitable lake and fire them off for the edification of the plumber partridges who came to nest in the district . |
| 13 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 14 | I do not know how I shall manage this winter and dread it not for the weather which is rarely fierce , but for the loneliness . |
| 15 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 16 | She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck . |
| 17 | However , the party did not follow this line ; otherwise they would have opposed independence for the more advanced Poland , Finland , the Baltic States and the Ukraine , and supported it only for the more backward minorities . |
| 18 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 19 | But on what grounds will a teacher identify a pupil as F , and put him in for the F exam ? |
| 20 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 21 | Block discounting — a finance house may buy a ‘ block ’ of debtors from a company at a discount , and follow them up for the company . |
| 22 | She had braked the pram outside a newsagent and was just stooping to pick up Charlotte and take her inside for the chocolate , when she thought : I must n't . |
| 23 | Their common lot was fierce parental discipline , even a man of a warm and kindly nature such as Samuel Pepys thought nothing of beating his 15-year-old maid with a broomstick , and locking her up for the night in his cellar , or whipping his boy-servant , or even boxing his clerk 's ears . |
| 24 | Your letters are very much appreciated , and thank you especially for the Photos , which are not bad at all , and which handed to me just before we left Sian . |
| 25 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 26 | all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens . |