Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was indeed a steady brain drain ; and some , like Lieberich , had intended to come for a visit rather than to stay permanently . |
| 2 | That 's probably why I want to go for a dump now . |
| 3 | She had now reached the age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one . |
| 4 | I wan , I want to la , I want to live for a bit longer . |
| 5 | I 've told Pepe to put a notice up that Miguelito has gone for a holiday abroad . ’ |
| 6 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 7 | ‘ But because unemployment tends to increase for a while even after growth has resumed and because some taxes , particularly corporation tax , are collected a year in arrears , I expect borrowing next year to rise further . |
| 8 | And she 's going to look for a flat somewhere else of course |
| 9 | ‘ Actually I 'd quite like to stay for a while longer , if you do n't mind . |
| 10 | Er , what Councillor Newton 's just said , I would just like to ask for a clarification there , if I may . |
| 11 | ( c ) Money paid to a person for the performance of a statutory duty , which he is bound to perform for a sum less than that charged by him , is also recoverable to the extent of the overcharge . |
| 12 | The driver simply halted wherever people collected waiting for a ride rather like today 's bus request stops . |
| 13 | Anyone wishing to book for a group more than four weeks in advance should obtain and return a booking form ( address on back page ) . |
| 14 | If you decide to go for a ScreenShow then HGW offers a limited range of transition effects which you apply on a slide by slide basis . |
| 15 | I decided to go for a walk westward along the side of the fjord . |
| 16 | Sue Hill was 35 when she started looking for a job nearly two years ago . |
| 17 | Brookhouse was fortunate for , as the cloth trade went into decline , it managed to attract a new industry that enabled it to keep going for a century longer than many of its counterparts . |
| 18 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 19 | Robert Dunlop said : ‘ When I came today I would have settled for a lot less . |
| 20 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 21 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 22 | Either they have been slobby , and it has eventually got depressing having to argue the case for owning a toothbrush ; or they have been scrupulous — in which case I have started longing for a bit more rough-and-readiness . |
| 23 | ‘ She and Gary had everything to live for and were working to get married for a life together . |
| 24 | In their infinite wisdom , the SFA had arranged for a Scotland Under 23 side to travel with the senior squad , in the admirable but ultimately naive belief that it would be a learning experience for the young stars of the future . |
| 25 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 26 | The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one . |
| 27 | They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel . |
| 28 | Er , it 's a wee problem I 've had for a say about a year now . |
| 29 | Tempers exploded at breakfast time after Rosemary and Carssier who had feuded for a month accidentally bumped into each other between two beds and their slanging match to violence when Rosemary shouted what you need is a man ! |
| 30 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |