Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel rallied round and asked her out for a drink . |
| 2 | And she was all right because when I got back here , she drove up and asked me over for coffee . |
| 3 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Like the diligent ‘ style ’ journalist he is , Cohn notes them all down and offers them up for our delight . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What you did was to save the lot up and cash it in for a big meal . |
| 8 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You 're making a point , and then he comes in and finishes it off for you . |
| 14 | Peel carried on playing their records and booking them in for sessions , despite their high degree of success . |
| 15 | and banging it out for one |
| 16 | The grocer had a grinder somewhere , and his wife unearthed it , dusted it down and plugged it in for me . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Club bought several felled poles for £2 16s. 7d. and cut them up for course seats , a by the 8th tee today . |
| 19 | My colleague saw it and cut it out for me . |
| 20 | He was n't very pleased with me , and told me off for not saying where I 'd moved to . |
| 21 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 22 | Of course , this may lead them to run onto the rotted wood , which will give way and let them in for a long fall … |
| 23 | I 've got a continuation shot , well what I shall do is just try and line them up for a rush down to , which is not bad . |
| 24 | Best to sit back and cue him up for the one-liners . |
| 25 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 26 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 27 | And I used to take 'em round the pubs and put 'em up for raffles for Christmas . |
| 28 | Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake . |
| 29 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 30 | I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me . |