Example sentences of "[pers pn] for a [noun] and " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 2 | K : ‘ He took me for a pizza and we got on brilliantly from then . ’ |
| 3 | My father stopped , looked at me for a bit and then said that in the circumstances I could go out that night — providing I milked the cows first . |
| 4 | We had many chats and on several occasions I had him join me for a sandwich and coffee at the Georgia Grill . |
| 5 | ‘ Miss Fitch took Edward and me for a walk and we gathered stones and pebbles . |
| 6 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 7 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 8 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 9 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 10 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 11 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 12 | He shook our hands , holding them for a moment and laughing softly . |
| 13 | He for a boy and she for a girl and it for anything . |
| 14 | You 'd select the JTFax when you wanted to print something ; the document would be sent to it , then it would prompt you for a name and phone number . |
| 15 | Vivienne said I should hang out with you for a while and then we can meet up with Malcolm later . |
| 16 | erm I 'd we we have a number of suggestions er a gentleman over there about the er body building was that reported back to you for a start and did you discuss this ? erm you know I I really thought it sort of modern management techniques if there applied here like team working net working it 's it this way you could actually begin to perform as the committee at the moment your the shadowy figures in the background . |
| 17 | I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’ |
| 18 | Did they take you for a week and show you |
| 19 | I 'll take you for a meal and drop you at Ilse 's place afterwards . |
| 20 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 21 | On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them . |
| 22 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 23 | ‘ I went out with him for a year and a half , ’ she replies . |
| 24 | Jimmy cursed him for a fool and thanked him for standing aside . |
| 25 | Jack , by then very famous , called him for a chat and asked if he needed anything . |
| 26 | Roland took him for a caricature and bristled vestigially with class irritation . |
| 27 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 28 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 29 | The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
| 30 | Martin looked at him for a moment and smiled softly at him as he said , ‘ I would , laddie , but you 'd better not ; I think your mother needs you tonight . |