Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a conference at Oxford in December 1989 , Professor Randolph Quirk , the famous linguist , attacked me fiercely for including material like this , which could be easily misrepresented by the press . |
| 2 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 3 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It was Sammy got them out for us and loaded into the van , ’ she said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yeah , but made my in for a tea . |
| 11 | Invited them out for a drink ? ’ |
| 12 | At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea . |
| 13 | I thought she but I 'm trying to think what she phoned me up for . |
| 14 | I tried other opiates , but I ‘ ave n't used them now for years . |
| 15 | OPERA giant Luciano Pavarotti looked a picture of massive dedication yesterday as he built himself up for his latest role . |
| 16 | ‘ Charles , you remember — Juliet and Miles invited you down for lunch . ’ |
| 17 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 18 | His medium stature condemned him to character parts — unless a choreographer created something especially for him , as John Cranko did in Prince of the Pagodas and Bonne-Bouche and Kenneth MacMillan in Noctambules . |
| 19 | Trainer Richard Hannon entered her yesterday for the Hambro Countrywide Fillies Stakes at Newmarket and the Daily Mail Leisure Stakes at Lingfield on Saturday . |
| 20 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 21 | She invited him home for a coffee and he set about trying to find out what was wrong with her washing machine . |
| 22 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 23 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 24 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 25 | The following afternoon he invited her round for another meal . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 28 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 29 | This described him aptly for us : he was an eager , neat and busy little footballer who possessed a snappy tackle and plenty of enthusiasm and determination — just the sort of fellow that a successful side needs . |
| 30 | 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 . |