Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lets me furl her around for a while , and makes those shammy gasps she knows I like , and gives detailed promise of all that cocked and candid talent — before she calls a halt , slithers off the bed , corrects her clothing , brushes her hair , changes her shoes , powders her nose , slides my Johnson out of her mouth and insists on lunch . |
| 2 | I asked him in for a break . |
| 3 | ‘ That person is here again , Miss Grenfell , she says she has slippers for you , shall I show her in for the fitting ? ’ |
| 4 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 5 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 6 | I 'm sorry , Ellie ; I let you in for a hard time , did n't I ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Why do n't I take you out for a nice dinner this evening ? |
| 10 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 11 | I keep them on for the programme . |
| 12 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 13 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 14 | I took him out for a walk and he went straight into a lamp post , ’ said Ray , of Clarence Chare , Newton Aycliffe . |
| 15 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 16 | ‘ While you shower and change before I take you out for a meal . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , I picked it up for a song about twelve years ago . |
| 18 | and er , they sent her er bouquet and a card for her birthday , she was seventy , and she wrote a letter back and she passed it around for every body to read , and there was , in her writing , which was very clear |
| 19 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 20 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 21 | She booked herself in for the works as she put it — a facial and full-body massage . |
| 22 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 23 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 24 | In desperation she dragged him out for a stroll on the Heath . |
| 25 | But then , ’ he again indicated the child , ‘ they 're a handicap where jobs are concerned , unless you farm them out for the day , or altogether . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean , there 's no need for you to take me out for a meal . ’ |
| 27 | You 're afraid to ask you landlord for a repair because if you do , are you setting yourself up for a rent increase ? |
| 28 | She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers . |
| 29 | You held her down for the other one . |
| 30 | She looked alert and approachable , just the type of person we were looking for , so we asked her in for an interview . ’ |