Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 2 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 3 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 4 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 5 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 6 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 7 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 8 | you certainly do need to keep them for a while . |
| 9 | The signing of Byrne is exciting … he gets goals … has scored them for a list of clubs … |
| 10 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 11 | Having acted in a Conservative manner , especially at election times , one starts to take oneself for a Conservative ( i.e. Bem , 1967 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 13 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 14 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 15 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 16 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 17 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 18 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 19 | " If it 's not a success , " Sara said slowly , " I 'll turn my half of Moorlake into two flats and hope to keep one for a country retreat . " |
| 20 | His eyes seemed to study her for a moment . |
| 21 | Vass spread his long fingers over the chair arms and seemed to contemplate them for a moment . |
| 22 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 23 | Yet being able to step off the treadmill and stop judging yourself for a while is the only way to begin to take stock and to start to unwind from the stress spiral . |
| 24 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 25 | Luke 's kiss , withheld to torment her for a moment while he stared into her darkened eyes , was an insult when it came , and yet insufficient to her hunger , because his mouth was torn away from hers again almost at once , plunging to suckle hard at one exposed breast for several agonising seconds , the message blatant — she was desired , and despised . |
| 26 | That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life . |
| 27 | Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight |
| 28 | Shah declined , but said he would be willing to help finance it for a fee . |
| 29 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 30 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |