Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the Tech , which has trumpeted the fact that it has pushed hard for a greater training element , has only been enabl able to include such elements as health and safety , job search , an enhancement of skills relevant to the job that is being done . |
| 2 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 3 | Would you like to borrow Nutty for a few weeks ? |
| 4 | Miranda began to feel curious for a closer look . |
| 5 | Certainly , a successful coup would have offered potential for a dangerous new version of a ‘ stab-in-the-back ’ legend . |
| 6 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 7 | Of , one of the words that she was talking about , people have started using wicked for a normal phrase . |
| 8 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 9 | Er there 's a sense also in which memories may not be an individual phenomenon but may be a collective phenomena and if you listen to families reminiscing about things or people who 've know each-other for a long time reminiscing about things , different people supply different details , they contradict one-another , they erm fill things in , they say no it ca n't have been then because um because that was the Christmas when Uncle Sydney had his kidney stones and um y'know stuff like that . |
| 10 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 11 | Vologsky 's need to feel that he was not alone in the world had lain dormant for a long time . |
| 12 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 13 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |