Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ At least let me stay here for a while until I get my head clear . ’
2 ‘ May I stay here for a pot of tea ? ’
3 Can I come up for a moment ? ’
4 May I come in for a moment ?
5 " May I sit here for a while and keep you company ? " asked the fox .
6 please , please could someone help just for an hour , we need help , we 're too sh
7 Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck .
8 Could you stay here for a minute ?
9 Pressing herself close as she kissed him , she pleaded , ‘ Ca n't you stay here for a while , Seb ?
10 Where did you go away for a fortnight to ?
11 Should she go in for a drink ?
12 How often do you get out for a walk in the countryside or even in the local park ?
13 why do n't you shut up for a moment
14 Did you write off for a catalogue ?
15 Why do n't you come here for a while .
16 Wo n't you come in for a minute ?
17 Will you come in for a cup of tea ?
18 Can you sit down for a while after that ?
19 er , how long have we got , oh about , not even half way through the tape yet , shall we go upstairs for a bit ?
20 ‘ Should we pop out for an hour or so and take a late breakfast ? ’
21 She wants to escape from home , and the least we can do is to let her stay here for a while .
22 Then I let her warble on for a while about the trials of high office , and feign interest in titbits of gossip from the upper echelons .
23 I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed .
24 well let it dry off for a minute , well they must have a card , good job I thought about that I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name
25 Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time .
26 The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ?
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