Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am in the process of compiling a book on old fashioned remedies for horse ailments and am writing to ask if any of your readers have experience of any , and would they be kind enough to pass them on for possible publication . |
| 2 | Call them on for more details . |
| 3 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've 27 turned out at home and I could bring any of them in for all weather racing at any time . |
| 5 | You either let them in for two reasons . |
| 6 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 7 | To relax the feet totally , start by soaking them in for 20 minutes in some herbal bath salts . |
| 8 | I wrote them down for each person . |
| 9 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 10 | I 'm just can you put me down for some paracetamols for the pain |
| 11 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 12 | However , the contract expressly left them over for later agreement . |
| 13 | Silvex Modes , do pop in , ladies , convenient hours to suit you and the kiddies , and we 'll lovingly screw you over for fifty pence an hour . |
| 14 | Er they take you up for twenty minutes intensive and then drop it |
| 15 | ‘ And I should know , having brought you up for twenty-odd years . |
| 16 | But your earnings , or savings , rule you out for Legal Aid , and you 're reluctant to splurge money on lawyers . |
| 17 | The man with the lisp said , ‘ It 'll put you out for ten minutes . |
| 18 | He struggled on and , with less than 50 per cent of his sight restored , took this year 's annual meeting of the NCC without betraying his difficulties except when he said when taking questions : ‘ I will ask my deputy to point you out for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 19 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 20 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 21 | Far from trying to develop their targets for the long haul , the Milken minions broke them up for quick gain . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want the feckin' Gardai pullin' me up for drunken drivin' . ’ |
| 23 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 24 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 25 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 26 | However , delegates from the Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM ) failed to endorse the resolutions which had been hammered out in hours of debate and decided instead to take them back for further discussions by its supporters . |
| 27 | Yeah but was he bringing them out for other people as well ? |
| 28 | If you 've neglected your legs during the winter and are planning to get them out for some spring sunshine then check out the new Stripwax from Jolen , £3.95 for 36 strips . |
| 29 | Why single me out for this honour ? ’ he mocked . |
| 30 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |