Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expected to wait a while for a spawning , but within two weeks they surprised me . |
| 2 | Sometimes we do not even need to provide a substitute for a word or phrase which has already been said . |
| 3 | If I want to visit a bank for a few minutes , I park my car as near as possible as many do , to be able to rush in and out again as quickly as possible . |
| 4 | He saw the question of how such contrarious genres as fabliau and romance could co-exist in medieval French literature as a critical problem , and consequently tried to identify a source for a taste which could explain the proliferation and regularization of fabliau , the narrative and comical substance of which he accepted as being ubiquitous . |
| 5 | . Er well , unless they want to do a go for a piece of this I mean , as well anybody , if not better than anybody now . |
| 6 | Blackburn businessman Sardar Khan raised the alarm after his 60-year-old uncle ploughed £7,500 into Muslim World Finance to try to raise a loan for a post office . |
| 7 | She let it be known that this was a cause she would wish to be supported and therefore we intend to open a Fund for a period of six months from 1st March — 1st September at the end of which time the Society will donate the money to the hospital in Molly 's name . |
| 8 | He feels the ref should be empowered to demand a substitute for a player guilty of non-malicious , dangerous play . |
| 9 | But the Buid also view themselves as constituting a sort of animal ultimately destined to provide a feast for a class of spirits after death . |
| 10 | Colvin had known Burne-Jones , and was persuaded to write a preface for a London gallery show . |
| 11 | If I 've got to write a comment for a start |
| 12 | Service trades offer the opportunity to create jobs quicker because they fulfil a requirement that already exists , rather than attempting to create a market for a new product and often having to wait for factories to be built and machinery installed . |
| 13 | One is that the then Conservative group , and I think , by reflection the current Conservative groups , since everybody sitting here was here last year , do n't know enough about budgeting to set a budget for a county council , and it also tells us that they do n't know enough about managing a county council to manage even a budget that they have set . |
| 14 | ‘ If you 'd like to take a seat for a moment . ’ |
| 15 | There had been press reports in early October that a group of fanatical Jewish extremists , the Temple Mount Faithful , planned to mark the Jewish festival of Succoth ( Tabernacles ) on Oct. 8 by attempting to lay a cornerstone for a new Temple . |
| 16 | and then you take your long end and you wind above covering the edge and overlapping and then the low , then covering the edge and overlapping , there and again you keep working your way up and down , a figure of eight until you get to the end of your bandage then tie away from the body in your reef knot , either you tuck your ends in or if that 's awkward you can just put a sticking plaster over the ends to get them out of the way like that , so just tuck the ends in and I do n't think your casualty 's going to need a sling for a little graze like that |
| 17 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 18 | In helping to negotiate a contract for a family member on admission there is scope for clarifying details of daily life , and helping the family and the old person work through their feelings about any restrictions . |
| 19 | In a previous issue of JFIT News we announced that we were beginning to draft a proposal for a new Compound Semiconductor Advanced Technology Programme , and we asked for your views and ideas as to the scope of the workplan and the size of the budget . |
| 20 | International aid agencies , such as UNICEF , the UN children 's fund and the World Bank , are now striving to find a design for a handpump that is cheap and easy to maintain . |
| 21 | And how much does it cost to hire a helicopter for a day ? |
| 22 | Queen drummer Roger Taylor has volunteered to organise a super-group for a concert on Ibiza next summer , while impresario Cameron Mackintosh has donated his musical ‘ Five Guys Named Moe ’ for a one-off performance on September 17 on the island . |
| 23 | Keeton spent three years there before returning to Cambridge , where he established himself as a private tutor to Law students , while he waited to be invited to fill a vacancy for a legal appointment in the Foreign Office . |
| 24 | Instead she would try to arrange a formula for a smooth withdrawal of US forces without serious economic disruption . |
| 25 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 26 | In 1892 it was proposed to start a fund for a new organ . |
| 27 | YOU do n't have to watch a free-kick for a pantomime as suggested in last week 's column . |
| 28 | Already known to have a weakness for a pretty face , it was understandable that she worried now he chose to teach attractive young girls . |
| 29 | You 'll have to get a car for a . |
| 30 | We 'll just have to organize a whip-round for a Super-Nintendo . |