Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink . |
| 2 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 3 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 4 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She did not feel entirely at ease about this , and even went to consult the Careers Adviser in Cambridge , who gave her various leaflets , told her about trainee courses at the BBC , and sent her off for a two-day inspection of the Civil Service . |
| 9 | But when the Cup ties came round , Chapman made another , more dramatic decision — he dropped Alex James , the man intended as the team 's dynamo , and sent him home for a complete rest . |
| 10 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dip this end into hormone rooting powder while it is still moist from the cut so that some powder adheres , shake or tap off the surplus and lay it aside for a few minutes while the others are being prepared . |
| 13 | But like that A lot of families had them and kept them just for the family . |
| 14 | He put an arm around her shoulders and kept it there for a moment . |
| 15 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 16 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 17 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 18 | She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 21 | But on what grounds will a teacher identify a pupil as F , and put him in for the F exam ? |
| 22 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | all the the tatties boiled tatties and chopped it up for the hens . |
| 25 | Then he had reached out and pulled her into his arms and held her tightly for a moment . |
| 26 | She took the smoke down deep into her lungs and held it there for a while before letting it out slowly . |