Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Invited them out for a drink ? ’ |
| 4 | Trainer Richard Hannon entered her yesterday for the Hambro Countrywide Fillies Stakes at Newmarket and the Daily Mail Leisure Stakes at Lingfield on Saturday . |
| 5 | She invited him home for a coffee and he set about trying to find out what was wrong with her washing machine . |
| 6 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 7 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He weighed her up for a moment , his wide mouth compressed and then asked : ‘ D'ye think Isobel would come to a ball with me ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She regarded him steadily for a minute with eyes still bloodshot from crying . |
| 12 | Donna regarded him blankly for a moment , then nodded . |
| 13 | Scott regarded him impassively for a moment . |
| 14 | She regarded him thoughtfully for a moment or two . |
| 15 | Ouch , I thought , that really hurt , and I clenched it tight for a moment to stop the pain , before looking to see the damage . |
| 16 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 17 | Robinson regarded it cautiously for a moment , then shook it , feeling the power in the other man 's grip . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh — do n't tell me , I do n't want to know , ’ Emmie cried passionately , flinging herself down on top of William who suffered her patiently for a moment and then got up , shook himself and moved away . |
| 19 | He studied her intently for a moment , then bowed his head slightly . |
| 20 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 21 | He studied her impassively for a moment . |
| 22 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 23 | " He asked you in for a drink without asking me ? " |
| 24 | The Heathfield trainer commented : ‘ Breakfast Car bashed a leg in his last race and got a bit of heat in it , so we turned him away for the rest of last season . |
| 25 | He will inundate us with charters — and all because London Transport turned him down for a job . |
| 26 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 27 | Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home . |
| 28 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 29 | Picasso , on the other hand , while he was undoubtedly fascinated by the formal and sculptured properties of tribal art , also admired it intuitively for a more fundamental reason ; for its ‘ reasonable ’ or conceptual quality . |
| 30 | It was no fun , and the putrid bridie at the restaurant , thrown across the counter at me by a young waitress who clearly blamed me personally for the shortcomings in her life , was little consolation . |