Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't want to work hard for a year establishing your act , get offered a tour , and then find that your drummer wo n't give up his milk round . |
| 2 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 3 | ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’ |
| 4 | She wants to go away for a holiday , too . |
| 5 | Howard hugs her , and has to look away for a moment , he is so moved . |
| 6 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 7 | I think it 's brilliant , and when I came out of hospital you said mummy , I said I want to stay here for a couple of days is that Stacey ? |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get home for a drop of rum — I 've really missed that . ’ |
| 9 | As someone who has to ask occasionally for a care package for an individual , do I take it then the penultimate paragraph that this is the planning , you know , how you 're going to produce a care package for an individual , this is what you refer to in the planning system , and that you 're getting together with Social Services to get this care package together ? |
| 10 | For once the preciseness of the words did not irritate Aggie , and she answered gently , ‘ I 'm sorry , love , but … but she 's had to go away for a day or two . ’ |
| 11 | I would like to go just for a trial . |
| 12 | When the party ends , how 'd you like to go someplace for a drink ? |
| 13 | But no matter ’ — his voice rose now — ‘ you 've got to go there for a time , anyway . |
| 14 | If he would like to sit there for a while and learn something , I will then cheerfully give way to him . |
| 15 | ‘ Would you like to come home for a drink ? |
| 16 | Over there they have lots of servants , and her mother asks me if I would like to work there for a year , looking after Charlotte , so that Nicola could come and stay with them . |
| 17 | I should like to intervene only for a moment because I have an important constituency interest in that Gatwick , a major inter-national airport , is within my constituency . |
| 18 | ‘ If it 's all the same to you , ’ Ruth said , ‘ I 'd like to stay outside for a bit . |
| 19 | Are you going to stay here for a couple of days , where you 'll be safe ? |
| 20 | ‘ He is going to stay here for a while . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm going to stay there for a bit while I look round for a place . ’ |
| 22 | There was n't the faintest trace of pity in his face as he saw the defeated posture , just a glimmer of satisfaction that his own plans were starting to go well for a change . |
| 23 | She did not have to wait long for a train . |
| 24 | As a young man he had had a strong desire to visit the United States and decided to go there for a holiday , but as the liner approached New York , he dreamed that his mother ( to whom he was not particularly strongly attached ) was lonely and missed him , and this dream made him terribly homesick . |
| 25 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'd have to look elsewhere for a vet . ’ |
| 27 | First , the shot-gun approach involves the buyer saying ‘ Unless you agree immediately to a price reduction of 20% we 'll have to look elsewhere for a supplier . ’ |
| 28 | He just decided to do just for a laugh ! |
| 29 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 30 | mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes |