Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [det] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 2 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 3 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 4 | I 'll buy you another drink for that . ’ |
| 5 | What a wonderful Christmas gesture by Nigel Havers to donate £300 to a woman whose plumber charged her that amount for unblocking a toilet . |
| 6 | He owes us some money for the , for the , the milk that was off . |
| 7 | The negative effect of such discrimination is illustrated by the practice in adult education establishments which treat pensioners as ‘ half persons ’ ; colleges charge them half price for attending courses , but then insist that a class must have twice as many registrations as required for younger students , before it can go ahead . |
| 8 | would you credit that lot eh , I say would you credit that , now they 're gon na send me another bill for six pound odd for them and two pound , another two pound postage |
| 9 | And I said the thing is , she 'll pick him up off the floor or she 'll pick him up out the basket and say if you do n't give me some money for some drugs I 'll chuck him on the floor ! |
| 10 | I would , I would hope that as erm , as a committee we can support all these objectives , er , it does give me some cause for concern , that our own government is objecting to these provisions . |
| 11 | No , you did n't give me enough soup for that ! |
| 12 | Does she ever give yer any money for what yer do ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | pass my handbag up and I 'll give you that money for the cat food . |
| 14 | I know she thinks I 'm picking you up , but , I and Mark are gon na give you some money for |
| 15 | Well I , I 'd give you some marks for that . |
| 16 | This will not only achieve your regional publicity ; it will help to create goodwill within the trade and may even give you some material for the appropriate trade press . |
| 17 | is to actually give you another note for the moment for say |
| 18 | At the health centres in the country , the first thing they ask you is if you 're using family planning and if you are n't , they wo n't give you any medicines for your children . |
| 19 | They do n't give you any tips for nineteen ninety one though do they — are you a racehorse backer and punter ? |
| 20 | and , and , er of course that the commission looked at this as er , er , as a question to be looked at in the context of the market and of all facts , but they said you , if you want restrictions you can be sure that we wo n't give you any exemption for them , so you 'd better remove every single solitary objection , objec er restriction that we identify , that 's why at the end of the day they got er , it was a very , very strict approach by the commission , you can have nothing which is acceptable , you can get negative clearance but you 've got to be cleaner than clean , whiter than white , so remove every possible restriction . |
| 21 | would n't give you any marks for that . |
| 22 | There ya go Mark , that should give you enough ammo for a good few months yet : - ) ) |
| 23 | Two thousand points is the usual size for battles that will last an entire evening , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take most of a day to fight . |
| 24 | Two thousand points is the usual size for battles that will last an entire evening , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take the best part of a day to fight . |
| 25 | Two thousand points is the usual size for a good evening 's battle , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take the best part of a day to fight . |
| 26 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 27 | But as Consuelo is already kindly supervising here , we can give her another patient for the night . ’ |
| 28 | So can we give 'em some bonus for their work up there . |
| 29 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 30 | Let us all hope for better things in 1994 . |