Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 2 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 3 | I asked him for an instance of the difference between bookselling in Knightsbridge , London , and Union Street , Glasgow . |
| 4 | Kevin : Well , I 'd jist got my Giro , So I asked her for a Biro — If she |
| 5 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 6 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 7 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 8 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ I met her for the first time this week . ’ |
| 10 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 11 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 12 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 13 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 14 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 15 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 16 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
| 17 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 18 | no I were gon na do , I got them for the days |
| 19 | ‘ You are so right , ’ the stranger said , always with that look of persiflage upon her face , ‘ there is nothing to a degree , unless you are a complete clod , I got mine for a bet — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 21 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 22 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 23 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 25 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 26 | Someone interviewed her for an Italian magazine — they 're doing a piece about her family , or so she says . |
| 27 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 28 | I interviewed her for a nature programme . |
| 29 | ‘ They were n't worth keeping so I swapped them for a couple of balloons . ’ |
| 30 | I prepared myself for the baton change as Mac set off on his leg , so I did not see what happened there . |