Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 2 | Denis Smith says it was an interesting game and his team played well … it was a hard game … but after four defeats it was just the result they wanted and will help build them up for the rest of the season |
| 3 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 5 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 6 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 7 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 8 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 9 | You should , we told you you should of had a little dog like ours and it could of ripped them up for ya . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 12 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 13 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 14 | ‘ It was Sammy got them out for us and loaded into the van , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 16 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 17 | This compromise incorporates two tiers of tariffs which are likely to reduce marginally the price of British bananas but push them up for the Germans . |
| 18 | Windowboxes and other containers often begin to run out of flower power towards the end of summer , but it is usually possible to give them a boost to sustain interest until it is time to plant them up for a spring display . |
| 19 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 20 | ‘ Some day , when I 'm big and strong , I 'll knock someone down for you , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Yeah , but made my in for a tea . |
| 22 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 23 | Chilean fishermen are killing thousands of some of the world 's rarest dolphins so that they can chop them up for bait to catch the southern king crab . |
| 24 | " I 'll chop them up for kindling . " |
| 25 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 26 | Invited them out for a drink ? ’ |
| 27 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 28 | If you do decide to offer items to the media , your organisation or client 's own products are by far the best giveaways , for they enable the producer , journalist or researcher to try them out for themselves before featuring or writing about them . |
| 29 | Yeah , yeah well that 's what Pauline does sometimes when I go up she has them in for friendship , a bit of company in n it ? |
| 30 | At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea . |