Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 2 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 3 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 4 | I know when to duck out for a breather . |
| 5 | Vincent decided not to hang about for the landlord , but head back on foot the way they had come . |
| 6 | Turning well inside the box he side-stepped Birney to hammer in a shot which McConnell did well to push out for a corner . |
| 7 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 8 | At the time and date arranged , he meets an old friend and decides not to turn up for the meal with his niece . |