Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got my name down for pink and blue . |
| 2 | I could have stayed in London of course , eating my heart out for you as I have done ever since you put your head down on to your bread and butter here in this room and burst into tears ; but the combination of Christmas , and not having seen you in months drove me to a railway station and this morgue of a house . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's probably just as well for all concerned at the club that I should hang my boots up for a while . |
| 4 | Do I need my glasses on for this book ? |
| 5 | One friend raised £731 in one day by opening her home up for coffee , teas , and raffles . |
| 6 | and I said who 's that ? and he went oh god , shit we 're in the wrong tent and they went out and you can hear 'em I mean being a tent they 're laughing their head off for about half an hour |
| 7 | When he cast his eyes around for the one place that seemed , for a man of business , the least affected by the tumult of war , the shrewd Samuel decided on Tangier . |
| 8 | No , he calmly surveys them , holds his hands up for silence — and I know for a fact he ca n't speak a word of Japanese . ’ |
| 9 | ( He holds his hand out for the dagger . |
| 10 | ‘ You can release all the mental strain that you 've built up when psyching your self up for a marathon , ’ she says . |
| 11 | she said well I want me boots back for Thursday night cos I 'm going out in them |
| 12 | ‘ I am now told that he 's hawking her story around for a six-figure sum , ’ he writes in the 100,000-circulation journal , which is read mainly by journalists , stock-brokers and media personalities . |
| 13 | Their friends bring their friends down for the week-end . |
| 14 | Kate is obviously eating her heart out for a colour changer and an intarsia carriage . |
| 15 | Prehistoric and Roman tracks were duly appropriated by drovers from the Highlands , bringing their cattle down for sale in the Lowlands and , when the two nations were at peace , in England . |
| 16 | She will slow her pace down for them and keep a close eye on them as they amble along near her , but she will not let them get too far away from the home base . |
| 17 | ‘ Put me stockings on for us , ’ she said to Marie , after she had manoeuvred herself painfully into her wheelchair . |
| 18 | My grandma told my father off for growing a beard . |
| 19 | I tell you what you can do , you can bring my curtains in for me that 'll keep you cool , go on |
| 20 | ‘ Could I bring my dog in for his booster injection , please ? |
| 21 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 22 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 23 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
| 24 | and I mean but the quite the majority of them er put their hands up for Paddy Ashdown . |
| 25 | I put her name down for the local hospice without her permission , because although she defiantly insisted she did n't want anything to do with it , I thought things might change as she deteriorated . |
| 26 | Richard Gere 's wife let her hair down for free at a New York AIDS benefit show . |
| 27 | It was impossible for the skipper to get out " , although I put his parachute on for him he remained at the controls and ordered the crew to bale out . |
| 28 | The driver twisted his head round for instructions and Tait told him gently to carry on . |
| 29 | She had done her best for Craig , now it was up to his own kin to sort his problems out for him . |
| 30 | Marvin is a Liverpool fan but played for an Everton junior side last season and has still not made his mind up for whom to sign . |