Example sentences of "[pron] over for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | No we 've got them coming over on Sunday and she said oh do n't do anything special just do sandwiches , oh you invite them over for Sunday lunch , cos she 's a vegetarian , except she eats chicken and vegetarian that eats a chicken |
2 | The building societies are also under pressure to spend more money buying up empty properties and handing them over for rental . |
3 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
4 | He would invite me over for dinner quite often , and nearly every time they 'd have a fight . |
5 | Announcing storm-damaged figures and government plundering of its profits that left nothing over for investment , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom yesterday said that following its move to set up its cellular operations as a separate company as a first step to privatisation , it was also considering privatising the unit it has created to look after large customers . |
6 | We had somebody over for dinner , did n't we and they actually brought a bottle of wine , and we said oh yeah , well , cos we know him quite well , we said oh what shall we have ? |
7 | Establishing and sustaining relationships — ‘ We must have you over for dinner before we leave . ’ |
8 | To the Queen , Cranmer was not only detestable as a heretic but odious as the man who had arranged her mother 's divorce ; he had however been legally consecrated as Archbishop by order of the pope , and only the Pope could hand him over for judgement and punishment by the civil power . |
9 | If Blackberry and he had driven the stranger across the field by force , he could have handed him over for safe-keeping to Bigwig or Silver . |
10 | Just checking it over for test . |
11 | Just testing it over for test . |
12 | If the pieman win the toss , he receives a penny without giving a pie ; if he lose , he hands it over for nothing' ( Mayhew , London Labour and the London Poor , vol. i , 1861 ) . |
13 | A major offensive was launched on Aug. 22 in an attempt to relieve the siege , after the government had abandoned its earlier suggestion that it might evacuate the fort and turn it over for use by the International Red Cross . |
14 | On February 1 , 1941 Yamamoto showed his plan to Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi , Chief of Staff of the 11th Air Fleet , he turned it over for study to his most able commander , Minoru Genda . |
15 | Asked us over for drinks … |