Example sentences of "and [vb past] [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The grocer had a grinder somewhere , and his wife unearthed it , dusted it down and plugged it in for me . |
| 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 was n't very pleased with me , and told me off for not saying where I 'd moved to . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He went and fetched it up for me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 14 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 15 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |
| 16 | American 's name and address and rang him up for one . |
| 17 | Went and pulled her over for it . |
| 18 | He winced as she dabbed disinfectant on the cut and covered it up for him . |
| 19 | She did not feel entirely at ease about this , and even went to consult the Careers Adviser in Cambridge , who gave her various leaflets , told her about trainee courses at the BBC , and sent her off for a two-day inspection of the Civil Service . |
| 20 | Burton was so elated at his tough bargaining that he took a rare taxi back to Pelham Crescent , where he met his neighbour , Emlyn Williams , who winkled the details out of him and sent him back for £30 . |
| 21 | His second-in-command re-divided the men and sent them back for a second search of the places they had searched before . |
| 22 | Next morning I checked the typing for errors and sent it back for correction . |
| 23 | However , the seven republican delegations which attended a further meeting on Nov. 25 refused to initial the Treaty , and sent it back for further discussion in the republican Supreme Soviets . |
| 24 | The testicle had been dead so they had taken it out and sent it off for tests . |
| 25 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |
| 26 | The wire hangers rang together like bells and kept it up for almost a minute . |
| 27 | He hurried the will into proper form and brought it down for signature . |
| 28 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 29 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 30 | She bought some and took it back for the baby , dipping her finger in for the mite to suck . |