Example sentences of "i [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 2 | And er Betty called me in for a cup of coffee but and I was there , I think , for over two hours . |
| 3 | ‘ The least you could do is invite me in for a coffee . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 5 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Put me down for a fiver both ways . ’ |
| 7 | A Colonel Drage , for instance , who lived at The Rodd near Presteigne , would sometimes invite Brian and me over for a night . |
| 8 | So I drove to Arnisdale and discovered that Mr McTavish would indeed ferry me over for a bottle of malt : but he wanted another bottle to bring me back . |
| 9 | And if you do go back there , at least phone me occasionally and ask me over for a meal — I 'll bring a bottle of vino . |
| 10 | Alan , whom I did n't know very well , had invited Ann and me over for the day , and had also offered to act as our gillie . |
| 11 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 12 | ‘ That 's finished me off for the day , that has ! |
| 13 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 14 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 15 | And that 's me up for the day . |
| 16 | you know had some of that and erm my fried breakfast and my toast and my cup of coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed that , set me up for the day that did . |
| 17 | To soften me up for the kill ? |
| 18 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 19 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This has set me up for the rest of the season and now I can have a real crack at the England squad , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |
| 22 | ‘ A fast car will take me back for a drink with the cast afterwards , but if they have n't got it right yet , they never will . ’ |
| 23 | All I did was turn me back for a minute and it was . |
| 24 | Jessie Young was on holiday in St Abbs but , nevertheless , took Ian and me out for a day , visiting Eyemouth and exploring Berwick . |
| 25 | She has n't a clue and asks me out for a drink . |
| 26 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 27 | ‘ He rang me up that same evening and asked me out for a drink . ’ |
| 28 | How about taking me out for a drink then ? |
| 29 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 30 | Earnest me anyway slightly hankered alter another Italian boy , Joseph , who had invited me out for a walk . |