Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You are to search out the traitor Raphael and , when you find him , kill him or bring him back for me . ’ |
| 2 | I 'll be happy to give you her address , or send it on for you . |
| 3 | In the late seventies some people in the mainstream of literary study were inclined to believe , or halfbelieve , these ideas , or to try them on for size . |
| 4 | A spokesperson will then either transition the module into a conceptually approved state or hold it back for further work before approval . |
| 5 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 6 | It is also at least arguable that these sections of the UCTA prevent the seller from imposing an obligation on the buyer to permit the seller to exercise the options of alteration of the goods or taking them back for a refund , because such actions by the seller would be in breach of his warranty of quiet possession . |
| 7 | Fit your car with a catalytic converter , if possible , or trade it in for a new model — cars made after 1993 must have them . |
| 8 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ If a player flicks up the ball and tries to head it to his goalkeeper , or flicks it up for someone else to knock back , he 'll be booked for ungentlemanly conduct . ’ |
| 10 | Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink . |
| 11 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 12 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It goes against all common sense to take the most fundamental element of ecosystem , with the land and habitats it supports , and sell it off for profit , as the Tories are trying to do , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 15 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 16 | What you did was to save the lot up and cash it in for a big meal . |
| 17 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 18 | He blew a lot of his money on gambling , even slot machines , and buying cars before he got bored with them and sold them off for a fraction of the price he paid for them . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Well , she her , her sleeping habits during the day change to afternoons , and , well today she 's been she had about two hours this afternoon , so if we did our normal and gave her tea at five o'clock , and send them up for a bath at half past six , there 's no way she 'd be asleep . |
| 21 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 22 | You 're making a point , and then he comes in and finishes it off for you . |
| 23 | Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success . |
| 24 | and banging it out for one |
| 25 | The grocer had a grinder somewhere , and his wife unearthed it , dusted it down and plugged it in for me . |
| 26 | He stood there , his face awash with blood , his swollen mouth hanging open , but still conscious , still awake enough to see his younger brother 's eyes as they fixed his own and lined him up for the coup de grace . |
| 27 | The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today . |
| 28 | My colleague saw it and cut it out for me . |
| 29 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
| 30 | He was n't very pleased with me , and told me off for not saying where I 'd moved to . |