Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 3 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 4 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mummy told him off for saying it when I was there . |
| 9 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 10 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 11 | Well — he would not , and the laird turned him out for it — he turned him out and sent him off and we have had no land since and he put nobody else into Upper Farrochil — he only wanted it for himself . |
| 12 | Showed him up for what he really is . |
| 13 | I mentally signed him up for the STBO ( Stating the B — ng Obvious ) Club . |
| 14 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |
| 15 | As this happened two weeks before Christmas , Sinitta hopes someone scooped him up for a Christmas gift . |
| 16 | When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit . |
| 17 | Thatcher reportedly singled him out for promotion when he was honest enough to tell her that backbenchers were uneasy about the state of the economy : like the young George Washington , he trembled , but could not tell a lie . |
| 18 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 19 | Professor Brighouse has no idea why Mr Patten singled him out for attack , but says the Secretary of State has been under a lot of pressure |
| 20 | Iago rose to take his leave , but the prince called him back for a moment . |
| 21 | When I called him out for it , Fest came between us . |
| 22 | His manner is the epitome of Ivy League rectitude : one of Boyd 's friends told me that the producer once ticked him off for breaching etiquette on opening a car door for a lady . |
| 23 | All in a year he won European indoor gold in Madrid , the Commonwealth silver in Edinburgh and the European outdoor gold over 100 metres in Stuttgart where officials ticked him off for collecting his medal while draped in the Union Jack . |
| 24 | American 's name and address and rang him up for one . |
| 25 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 26 | His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer . |
| 27 | Woody Allen passed him over for a musical . |
| 28 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 29 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 30 | A long exile ended in 1989 when England manager Geoff Cooke , no longer able to ignore Hill 's superb form for all-conquering Bath , brought him back for the game against Fiji at Twickenham . |