Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the more punchy ‘ How would you like to buy some shares in Gibbs Building Contractors — ‘ Do n't pick your contractor/ By throwing a dice/ Bring GIBBS into the game/ Ask us for a price ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Fishing Lines : The staring eyes have it for a longer life |
| 3 | Daddy take you for a bath ? |
| 4 | Many people borrow it for a day from a sympathetic relative . |
| 5 | The girls join them for a final splash in the pool . |
| 6 | An animal might for instance prepare itself for a fight by learning a particular association between some noise and the appearance of its enemy in the near future . |
| 7 | It can presumably survive , even though it is edible to birds , because birds take it for a monarch , and avoid it . |
| 8 | Young demobbed men are restless for a fight ; women sell themselves for a cigarette . |
| 9 | And and at the same time ask them for a date when they want the stone . |
| 10 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |