Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fallon , also enjoying the most important success of his career , said : ‘ The stands ’ side led us for a furlong , but our side was in command after that . ’ |
| 2 | Ken asked us for |
| 3 | Richard joined us for dinner , though he ate cautiously . |
| 4 | Or the more punchy ‘ How would you like to buy some shares in Gibbs Building Contractors — ‘ Do n't pick your contractor/ By throwing a dice/ Bring GIBBS into the game/ Ask us for a price ’ . ’ |
| 5 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 6 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 7 | We have offered to produce , on demand , any other communications which braille readers ask us for . |
| 8 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 9 | We 've asked four top designers to join us for the day and show just how they would accessorize the little black dress that is a staple of this season 's wardrobe . |
| 10 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 11 | The guard invited us for tea . |
| 12 | The Club Captain , John Gunne and Lady Captain , Josie McPhillips joined us for the Outing and for the evening celebrations . |
| 13 | The quarterly newspaper Wood News continues to be our principal source of communication and in 1992 we established a network of local Correspondents to ensure that news from all companies reaches us for publication . |
| 14 | Hugh chides us for selling at what he regards as low prices , but he forgets that our hobby not our source of income ; it is a way of relaxing during evenings and weekends when the serious business of earning a living is over . |
| 15 | ‘ We took the liberty of asking our friend Percy Hoskins to join us for dinner . |
| 16 | One of the many dimensional technologies that IMC court us for . ’ |
| 17 | The association of sex and musical imagery reaches a splendid climax in this tale as Alison and Nicholas enjoy " " revel " " and " " melodye " " in bed to a devout musical accompaniment as : The use of animal imagery to describe Alison prepares us for her response to Nicholas 's first assault : while the images of the trave , a frame for holding a horse to be shod , and of the final night of the tale " " derk … as the cole " " , prepare us for the brief scene at Gerveys the blacksmith 's forge ( 3760 – 85 ) . |
| 18 | Stanza three 's shockingly different mythology prepares us for ‘ This withered root ’ . |
| 19 | Er , I I 'll skip through it cos ' most people have n't got the copies with them , er we looked , you 'll remember that the A C C ops meeting thanked us for providing Beeston with a U V lamp for M O T examination . |
| 20 | He jumped down and grabbed one , I ran after him , trod on the screws , fell , hurting my gouty foot and breaking the blue vase Auntie Dolly gave us for christmas . |
| 21 | Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day . |
| 22 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |
| 23 | But if one failure damns us for life , there would never be a happy second marriage , a confident second-test driver or a successful birthday cake . |
| 24 | Frank Kelly thanked us for our efforts and I somehow was volunteered again to make the reply . |
| 25 | Has our education prepared us for such perplexing indecision ? |
| 26 | Neither rejection , protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays . |
| 27 | We were then taken by boat about ten miles to Bone where an armed Army escort awaited us for interrogation and we were kept in a locked room in the barracks . |
| 28 | and get another person to sponsor us for that |
| 29 | That 's what these slate quarry owners wanted us for us to fall back . |
| 30 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |