Example sentences of "[pers pn] for a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 2 | Hitting me for a fiver commission as well . |
| 3 | And although three quarters of our teenagers thought it best to wait until 16 before losing their virginity , the younger boys say they feel under pressure to have sex and reckoned they 've got even less information to equip them for a sex life . |
| 4 | The stewardesses woke them for a champagne breakfast . |
| 5 | He took them for a test drive and then Mrs Lomax drove , a little jerkily until she got more used to the Glory . |
| 6 | If so can she borrow/beg/steal them for a class item ? ? ? |
| 7 | ‘ To the lighthouse ’ had been our motto , and there we went , leading George , while the others made up a fire and roasted whole the lamb they had brought with them for a picnic luncheon . |
| 8 | That 's an area where they 're not gon na get involved unless there 's an awful lot of money and yes , there is money , for them for a training budget , but certainly not enough to cover what would be lost if , if Tomlinson , and let's face it , if they win Tomlinson it will just continue . |
| 9 | Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card . |
| 10 | PAUL Hodkinson and Colin McMillan are demanding £500,000 between them for a world featherweight title showdown . |
| 11 | By nominating you for a building society mortgage under the Support Lending Scheme which is designed to help first-time buyers . |
| 12 | if the gallery accepts you for a solo exhibition , they will normally organise everything and bear the costs of running and advertising it . |
| 13 | the bank will not mind , though they may charge you for a management fee . |
| 14 | And then they test the evacuation alarm then , so that everybody knows the alarms and er where to be and then th Every six eight weeks or something they take you for a helicopter evacuation where everybody 's taken from the lifeboat master station . |
| 15 | ‘ When I first met you , I took you for a pleasure anorexic . ’ |
| 16 | Windows will then prompt you for a disk designator where the new drivers are . |
| 17 | ‘ If you want me with you for a business meeting , ’ she protested huskily , ‘ you 're not acting in a very businesslike manner ! ’ |
| 18 | And yesterday he called their refusal to consider him for a factory floor job ‘ pathetic and ridiculous ’ . |
| 19 | The unsuspecting victim was horrified when a ‘ corpse ’ leaned out of an open coffin to ask him for a takeaway pizza . |
| 20 | He practically had me signed up for the European Monetary System when all I wanted was to touch him for a gold moidore . |
| 21 | Horsler 's appointment to control British Coal 's marketing strategy came amid reports that his business experience as national contracts director suited him for a negotiating role . |
| 22 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 23 | The Iggy-mimicking singer , having removed his trousers , is prancing around in red underpants as Beast joins him for a rap style duet . |
| 24 | In 1954 the publishing firm Methuen approached him for a Christmas card , as did the National Marriage Guidance Council , the latter printing 6,700 copies of his design . |
| 25 | The grandmother who had held him for a family photograph ; the mother Eda , the father Meir , the brothers Chaim , Avram , Aizik and Josef ; the sisters Selma and Esther . |
| 26 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 27 | And they 're doing her for a road traffic accident at Morrow Road when Simon the bike . |
| 28 | Lydia had barely set foot beyond the ashram in three years when Lorne turned up to kidnap her for a reconnaissance mission with him to Celebes island , eight hundred miles away to the north-east . |
| 29 | I interviewed her for a nature programme . |
| 30 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |