Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then : ‘ You 'll have to let me out for the Jubilee . |
| 4 | Vitamins , they said it was , to build me up for the flight home on Saturday . |
| 5 | and she 's been letting me off for the keep . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 's finished me off for the day , that has ! |
| 9 | They knocked him off and dressed me up for the suit with arrows . ’ |
| 10 | To soften me up for the kill ? |
| 11 | George said : ‘ By that time , they could be digging me up for the operation . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |