Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 2 | He goes to sleep with the feeling that things are going to go right for him in this town . |
| 3 | But I think that 's the only thing were , if I worked in a benefit office I would n't get on very well , because if I saw something I 'd try and move heaven and earth to make everything to go right for me . |
| 4 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 5 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 6 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 7 | PETER SMILES , who had been director of the Jockey Club 's Racing Security Services since 1977 , has decided to retire prematurely for ‘ personal reasons ’ , writes John Oaksey . |
| 8 | If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand . |
| 9 | Gooch , manager Keith Fletcher and England chairman Ted Dexter all praised the Whittingdale sponsorship which has allowed them to gather together for two days in each of the last six weeks . |
| 10 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 11 | Shortly after leaving Folkestone we were preparing to enter Ramsgate harbour on a cold , blustery day which prompted me to go below for my duffel coat as I normally conned Venturous alongside from the open bridge . |
| 12 | ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’ |
| 13 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 14 | She did not have to wait long for a train . |
| 15 | Dirk Coetzee did n't have to wait long for a really big job . |
| 16 | She carried a textbook on neurology in case she had to wait long for David . |
| 17 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 18 | Then another gap , just six months , before he got a barmaid from Ipswich who 'd been visiting her granny and was daft enough to wait alone for the late bus . |
| 19 | Several weeks later , John was lucky enough to find a home , but Poppy did n't have to cope alone for long . |
| 20 | And through them all does there not run a consistency of effort to strengthen the ties of monastic life , to bring back those in error , to wait patiently for better times , while occupying his time with theological work , with preaching and counselling the erring , for whom he displays an affectionate concern — even for the king . |
| 21 | But he knows , too , how to wait patiently for things to change . |
| 22 | And did the fourth consecutive Tory victory imply that Her Majesty 's loyal Opposition was destined to remain so for the foreseeable future ? |
| 23 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 25 | The precise circumstances of the birth of the Universe , perhaps some 15 billion years ago , are still a mystery — and are likely to remain so for many years . |
| 26 | Nevertheless the dollar was the principal reserve asset , and was likely to remain so for as long as the rest of the world accepted dollars and the monetary authorities of individual countries did not exert their option of exchanging dollars for gold . |
| 27 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 28 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 29 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 30 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |