Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only wants to go for a little 'un now and I 'll say , right that dog 'll be out the door . |
| 2 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 3 | As a result , Balder was only allowed to return for a certain period of time , only to disappear and return again . |
| 4 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 5 | I made a mental note to myself that if the doctor on her case set that beautiful leg anything other than back the way it should be , then he had better start looking for a good dentist . |
| 6 | The United manager would be better advised looking for a short-term solution while his troops re-form and Dion Dublin , their £1 million signing from Cambridge United — is nursed back into the team . |
| 7 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 8 | Even if you are not going to apply for a Legal Aid franchise , membership of the panel will be important for anyone putting themselves forward as a personal injury specialist ( see Appendix 2A for the Personal Injury Panel criteria ) . |
| 9 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 10 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 11 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 12 | I could not have asked for a better introduction to the summer Alps ’ . |
| 13 | If the cast had needed a demonstration of Michael Banks 's genuine warmth , they could not have asked for a better one than the way he dealt with Alex Household . |
| 14 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 15 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 16 | Clark had , however , made it clear that he did not wish to continue for a further term and , as a consequence of an Academic Board working party 's recommendation , a permanent post was created and filled externally by the appointment of the author . |
| 17 | In the case of franchises and licences the business is not transferred by the vendor and the vendor will normally have to arrange for a new licence or franchise to be granted to the purchaser by the licensor or franchisor on the surrender of the vendor 's licence or franchise . |
| 18 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 19 | Captain Montgomery was a tall , burly character with a jutting black beard , white teeth , a slightly hooked nose and humorous eyes and , in spite of the immaculately cut uniform and four golden rings on either cuff , could easily have passed for a well-to-do and genial eighteenth-century Caribbean pirate . |
| 20 | But behind the scenes some countries have ( unlike the Americans ) already begun planning for a different outcome . |
| 21 | Individuals need not offer to pay for a good that they can consume if others pay for it . |
| 22 | But the Prime Minister 's account of his own conversation at the palace earlier that morning reveals that the King had already determined to try for a National Government headed by MacDonald . |
| 23 | In the United States cities already have to argue for a notional amount to compensate for such under-recording : the same will probably have to happen in Britain . |
| 24 | Meredith was surprised he always had to look for a hidden motive . |
| 25 | Opportunities exist to push for new contracts within the same company , so individuals do not always have to leave for a new challenge . |
| 26 | Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon . |
| 27 | However , seven countries still refuse to vote for a total prohibition , including Japan , which is the leading protester and which today has the largest whaling fleet . |
| 28 | Bradley Dredge , last year 's beaten finalist , also looked poised for a 67 after a run of five straight birdies to the 11th on Dunluce , but happily settled for 69 as the wind reduced the 17th to a drive and short iron , but put the 18th out of range for everybody . |
| 29 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 30 | You could also try working for a nursing agency . |