Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall I ask her if she has a friend to bring along for you ? ’ |
| 2 | Every social worker has a responsibility to stand up for their own profession , to accept criticism humbly when it is due , and to explain why things are done in certain ways . |
| 3 | Eva said it had taken to wait a month to get in for a Saturday night . |
| 4 | If , it appears , you tell a subject to watch out for a certain item in a series of random sights the subject will seldom be able to recall whatever immediately preceded the watched-for item . |
| 5 | One wonders just how furious : last week , back in Moscow to see her three-year-old son between performances , Semenyaka was having difficulties getting a visa to come back for her next role here , Cinderella , in only three weeks ' time . |
| 6 | In most cases asking a child to sit out for a while is sufficient " discipline " providing the drama is interesting enough to draw them back in . |
| 7 | When I got back I found the office was n't open until the next day , so I had to get a driver to break in for me . |
| 8 | That was my original they had a competition to look out for people who 've got ideas about this new idea , it was a ridiculous idea to do a competition cos people did n't know what they were entering for , half the parishes were n't notified about it , |
| 9 | Sometimes she thought that she and William both had a need to make up for those lost ten years . |