Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 2 | He asked me back for lunch after the Eucharist . |
| 3 | They asked me in for tea , and we all listened to the morning news on Radio Tonga , crackling over the miles from the aerials down in Tongatapu . |
| 4 | Many grandmothers who lived with their grandchildren helped look after them , made their clothes , got them up for school , minded them while their mothers went out to work : ‘ I thought of my grandmother even more so than my mother cos she was always there , you see . |
| 5 | At Barvas Lodge knickerbockered ladies with good stud pearl earrings invited me in for tea . |
| 6 | ‘ Charles , you remember — Juliet and Miles invited you down for lunch . ’ |
| 7 | But when Maxwell tried one out for size he found it impossible to squeeze in . |
| 8 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 9 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 10 | Pat 's son invited us round for dinner , I never thought so say you know ! |
| 11 | They messed me around for days . |
| 12 | Arty laid down his pen and geared himself up for argument . |
| 13 | While she measured him up for size , her fingers trailed the tape measure precariously into his crotch . |
| 14 | On February 1 , 1941 Yamamoto showed his plan to Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi , Chief of Staff of the 11th Air Fleet , he turned it over for study to his most able commander , Minoru Genda . |
| 15 | Yes it erm you know , Martin 's done well , he 's got up and just nodded it down for Andy and erm he 's took it well ; a little touch and he 's just finished it very well , so you know , I 'm pleased for him . |
| 16 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 17 | CROAT and government forces slugged it out for parts of central and southwestern Bosnia yesterday , sending waves of bedraggled Muslim refugees fleeing eastward . |
| 18 | Barron 's case is based mainly on these elements : [ 1 ] Immediately after the crash some members of Gravier 's family came from Mexico City to the site to identify his body and rushed it off for cremation . |
| 19 | Passing one by one in front of a counter , a Corporal sized us up for height and girth before dumping a pile of cast-off clothes in front of each one of us . |
| 20 | For one thing I learned to cope with it better and then , well , I started growing and nobody singled me out for ridicule any more . |
| 21 | Well , I wrote out births , deaths , marriage certificates , and er then measured up houses on the rating side , erm worked them out for evaluations . |
| 22 | see through me with a voice of rival , rival calm when she called me in for tea , have a go |
| 23 | She 's as generous as Robin Hood and all his merry men , she 's as kind as Florence Nightingale and then as kind again , right super mum she has x-ray vision , she can see through me , with a voice or rival calm when she called me in for tea , |
| 24 | Professor Brighouse has no idea why Mr Patten singled him out for attack , but says the Secretary of State has been under a lot of pressure |
| 25 | Thatcher reportedly singled him out for promotion when he was honest enough to tell her that backbenchers were uneasy about the state of the economy : like the young George Washington , he trembled , but could not tell a lie . |
| 26 | When they asked her down for meals she did n't come . |
| 27 | Each time I went to Bristol , she took me out for tea on her own , or with a girlfriend . |
| 28 | Cos they did n't smear Biff right away , and when he did n't fight back they took him in for terrorgation … |
| 29 | And of course everyone knew all about it , just as they knew that the Mackays , poor souls , had done everything they could for the boy ever since they took him in for adoption . ’ |
| 30 | After he 'd taken out the bread , I took him back for lunch and he rested as usual in the afternoon , lying on his bed and listening to the radio . |