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 | 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 . |
| 10 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But behind the scenes some countries have ( unlike the Americans ) already begun planning for a different outcome . |
| 14 | Individuals need not offer to pay for a good that they can consume if others pay for it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Meredith was surprised he always had to look for a hidden motive . |
| 18 | Opportunities exist to push for new contracts within the same company , so individuals do not always have to leave for a new challenge . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | You could also try working for a nursing agency . |
| 23 | But selling in bulk to a middle-man such as an investment bank , which then sells on the properties , probably means settling for a low price , reckons Bill Rhodes , a vice-chairman of Citicorp . |
| 24 | Noon and the beach is near deserted save for a mad dog who demands we play with him . |
| 25 | All rooms are pleasantly furnished to provide for a relaxed and comfortable stay . |
| 26 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 27 | Rutger here has gone for a tight , hard , back pickup sound ideally suited to the staccato style he uses , and note the contrast between the sparse verse and much busier chorus patterns . |
| 28 | He immediately began studying for a new career in the treatment room . |
| 29 | Just nine first and you dial straight through , you do n't have to wait for a secondary dialling tone do you ? |
| 30 | The good news is that he charges in 15-minute slots of £5.86 , so you do n't have to pay for a whole hour if he 's only worked five minutes of it . |