Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 2 | Paul Reichmann asked me to delay everything for two months and I agreed . |
| 3 | And er you know she asked me to cut it for her so I cut it for her . |
| 4 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 5 | Mr Hellyer asked me to hide it for him . |
| 6 | A New Zealander , Wilkins , who had joined the section halfway through basic training from Castelnaudary , asked me to write one for him . |
| 7 | Later in the evening when the place had quietened a little and the cyclists had eaten , I invited them to join me for a glass of wine . |
| 8 | He started typing and found himself enjoying it for the first time for years . |
| 9 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 10 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 11 | She let him pour it for her while she threw another log on to the fire , smashing a cathedral of embers . |
| 12 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 13 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 14 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 15 | I told you to make one for your mother would . |
| 16 | He tried the same with Flora but she only told him to save it for his interview with Dr Mackintosh that morning . |
| 17 | I expected you to pay me for such attentions , my dear . |
| 18 | That was why he preferred the violence — it showed she felt something for him . |
| 19 | His herd numbered up to 200 head , including working bullocks used on the estates until local prejudice combined with shoeing difficulties encouraged him to abandon them for working horses . |
| 20 | And there were those men who encouraged us to reprimand them for sexist thoughts and deeds . |
| 21 | There 's a site to which this Society objected on Wetherby Road in Harrogate which we thought did n't need developing at all , but in practice the District Council decided they wanted it for industry because it considered the need for industry to be so great and we have along this frontage of Wetherby Road a row of three car showrooms and a token spot of industry behind it . |
| 22 | Now that he had told her everything , he expected her to condemn him for what he had done , but she said nothing . |
| 23 | Several fellow players asked her to take them for a ride as pillion passengers but that treat seemed to be reserved for members of her regular entourage , though I suppose it could be argued she took Steffi Graf for a ride in the semi-finals . |
| 24 | The young nurse , whose feet ached something cruel and who was desperate to snatch a cup of tea before somebody else asked her to do something for them , looked them up and down . |
| 25 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 26 | She wrote that she was dying of a fever , and asked him to visit her for the first and last time . |
| 27 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 28 | ‘ I asked him to get it for me . ’ |
| 29 | Then the officer in charge of the case , Detective Chief Inspector Golding , returned from the scene and persuaded them to repeat everything for his benefit . |
| 30 | I knew I recorded one for him and I did n't , I did n't |