Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the lure of the big stores , though clothing coupons and shortage of money made them a feast for the eye only . |
| 2 | The conduct of the foresters made them a by-word for oppression and extortion . |
| 3 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 4 | ‘ Better make me a list for Christmas , ’ Wayne said , and he gave her his hand to help her out onto the lakeside track . |
| 5 | Bring me a tissue for you ? |
| 6 | He rang up the hospital and got me a bed for the next week . |
| 7 | Well the government subsidizes them a lot for , for a start and it 's , again it 's the government , the philosophy of the gover of a government either subsidize something or it does n't , does n't it , and it subsidizes what it |
| 8 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 9 | The Lord has given me a heart for the Filipino people , although my work here finds me alongside so many other people . |
| 10 | It was likely that Alison had n't given me a thought for weeks , and that she had had half a dozen more affaires . |
| 11 | HEATHCLIFF HAD GIVEN me a letter for Catherine , but I decided not to show it to her until Mr Edgar was out of the house . |
| 12 | would you consider me a candidate for one of your courses ? |
| 13 | please send me a form for having babies at reduced prices . |
| 14 | You know to encourage him t well why not just send them a voucher for seventy f seventy five pounds to go towards an ticket next time they book ? |
| 15 | Moreover , they were told that if anything went wrong the United Nations would guarantee them a market for their onions . |
| 16 | Mm , well you can buy me a box for Mother 's Day , that 's a good idea in n it ? |
| 17 | But when I was seeing him he offered to write me a check for five million pound , I said , I could n't take a check for five million pound because I was a to me . |
| 18 | Shall I buy you a skirt for the beginning of term ? |
| 19 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's something special going on when a chap pulls out his chequebook and writes you a cheque for £13,000 right there in the car park , ’ he enthuses . |
| 21 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 22 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 23 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been told you 've recently specialled a similar medical case , but as Mr Francis is an accident case in addition to being allergic to antibiotics , personally I would have considered him a case for a trained special . |
| 25 | They w o on the arrears letter we write and we say you 're in arrears , please send us a cheque for the usual amount . |
| 26 | But one feels now that the man who stood on the soapbox and who made himself a target for eggs is ready for it . |
| 27 | The notorious Dr Crippen , he pointed out , in fact murdered his assertive wife only because he was too vain simply to run away from her and make himself a target for scorn . |
| 28 | ‘ I have accepted a challenge laid down by Mr Plumpton of Greycoats School that this school will field a tetrathlon team against his own team , good enough to really give them a run for their money , if not to beat them . |
| 29 | I can still give them a run for their money . |
| 30 | You 've got a captive audience there why the hell do n't you do it a sheet why do n't you give them a programme for the next three months exactly what is happening . |