Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN this chapter I want to search with you for the spirit of place , to conjure up the spirit that will give life and breath to descriptions of places . |
| 2 | And I want to work with you for a new Kenya . ’ |
| 3 | Listing particulars are required to contain all such information as investors and their professional advisers would reasonably require and reasonably expect to find in them for the purpose of making an informed assessment of the assets , liabilities , financial position , profits , losses and prospects of the issuing company and the rights attaching to its securities . |
| 4 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 5 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 6 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 8 | Because facing such questions has brought the work on long-term memory in Aplysia into the same biochemical arena as my own in the chick , I want to postpone considering them for the present and instead look at some of the problems which , in its singlemindedly reductionist approach , Aplysian orthodoxy — at least the orthodoxy of the mid-1980s , as I suspect that the position is now becoming much more flexible — has ignored . |
| 9 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
| 10 | Reserve team manager Eddie Kyle said : ‘ Parkinson has trained with us for a while . |
| 11 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 12 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
| 13 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
| 14 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
| 15 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 17 | I know it 's a terrible time for me to turn up on your doorstep , but I only want to speak to you for a moment . |
| 18 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 19 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 20 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 21 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 22 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
| 23 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 24 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 25 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 26 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 27 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 28 | I was so glad that the ‘ family ’ came to stay with me for a change . |
| 29 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 30 | I 'd lived with them for a while . |