Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 2 | He come round and he asked me for a change of a fiver . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , come on , that 's why you asked me for a drink . |
| 4 | ‘ And there was a sailor there — submariner , I think he was — and he asked me for a date , but I said no . ’ |
| 5 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 6 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 7 | Then I felt a pressure on my arm and a soft female voice asked me for a light . |
| 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 | If you came in now and asked me for a pound of apples , well in a way I would n't know a stranger whether they like them under-ripe , ripe or just ready for eating . |
| 10 | When I did , something about its stillness stilled me for a moment . |
| 11 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 12 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 13 | Well you got me for the day today , cos I ca n't go now until I fetch the car . |
| 14 | ‘ But the biggest joke is that Pauline actually recommended me for the part because she liked me so much ! |
| 15 | but when I asked them for a crayon , |
| 16 | When they arrived at Auckland Alexander asked them for the silver and his Presence was such that they did not dare to tell him that they had no silver , so Joan said that it was ‘ in the bank ’ . |
| 17 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 20 | Kalchu picked up a handful of maize kernels , inspected them for a minute , and let them trickle back through his fingers . |
| 21 | And he entered me for the scholarship , , and er , I won . |
| 22 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 23 | A short bubble-ride up to 1850m brought us to L'Altipiano , where we fortified ourselves for the afternoon 's skiing with a lengthy and very enjoyable lunch . |
| 24 | In what was seen as a policy of high personal risk , he proposed himself for the post of Prime Minister ( Ivan Silayev having resigned in September — see p. 38416 ) . |
| 25 | The child 's parents , and especially his father , were perceived as the obstacle to a realization of his Oedipus wishes ; so his infantile ego fortified itself for the carrying out of the repression by erecting this same obstacle within itself . |
| 26 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 27 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 28 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 29 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
| 30 | ‘ What happened , Fabia ? ’ he relentlessly pursued her for an answer . |