Example sentences of "[verb] us for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 2 | The guard invited us for tea . |
| 3 | Any inbuilt coding — in the form of genes — that could affect us after our child-bearing period is irrelevant to the survival of the species : the genes involved might code us for death but , in terms of the species , this does not matter because we have already served our purpose by reproducing . |
| 4 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 5 | Those with special techniques or a particular knowledge of equipment , tools , materials , etc. , are also invited to inform us for inclusion on our list of contributors/demonstrators . |
| 6 | Classical pharmacology prepared us for receptor diversity in that each of the stimuli listed in Fig. 1 acts through a separate receptor . |
| 7 | She 's meeting us for lunch , by the way . ’ |
| 8 | We had everything beaten expect Jodami , who has done us for foot . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I have always gotten the sense that museums , which are very active in lobbying us for money , take the essential position : ‘ Give us the money and leave us alone ’ ’ , Brodsky announced at a hearing last week . |
| 10 | First ferry and then you wo n't see us for dust . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The police arrest us for breach of the peace for horn blowing , but never the huntsmen for doing the same thing . ’ |
| 12 | They joined us for breakfast that first sunny morning on the terrace of our secluded villa tucked amid the pine trees by the sparkling blue sea . |
| 13 | And Lee and his girl-friend , Suzanne , drove up from Plymouth in time to miss it , but joined us for dinner at Browns . |
| 14 | Richard joined us for dinner , though he ate cautiously . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That way they can ring us for help if the other child needs it . ’ |
| 17 | Desire for God prepares us for delight in God . |
| 18 | I suppose she thought that Greene would not ask us to confirm what she had said , but chide us for impropriety on the strength of her word alone . |
| 19 | And our agreement does not provide us for time off with pay for an event such as this . |
| 20 | Future generations will condemn us for inaction in the face of what is obviously happening in the world at present . |
| 21 | What we need to know now is what the Brigadier here is going to give us for lunch . |
| 22 | ‘ Boggers ’ takes us for science and he is , by common agreement , a bit of a wimp — at least he is on some days . |
| 23 | ‘ Giancarlo has invited us for lunch on Sunday , at his villa in Fiesole . |
| 24 | ‘ Mistress Philippa had invited us for supper . ’ |
| 25 | But the God who ‘ has called us for holiness … gives us his Holy Spirit ’ ( I Thess. 4 7,8 ) to enable us to fulfil his requirement . |
| 26 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 27 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 28 | ‘ Grandfather is expecting us for tea in the summer-house . ’ |
| 29 | I was also dismayed we allowed young Simon Houston , an exciting talented goalkeeper , to leave us for Distillery . |
| 30 | Will you be joining us for lunch ? |