Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 Only got to do it for a second .
2 Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life .
3 The daughter no longer had to provide care but said ‘ I merely go to see her for a chat and the company nowadays ’ .
4 Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight .
5 The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term .
6 They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked .
7 The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term .
8 If the hon. Gentleman wants to be on his way , I would not wish to delay him for a moment .
9 You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’
10 I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while .
11 They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday .
12 They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday .
13 Well you just need to ask her for a long of it anyway .
14 Well I 'll I 'll fax it first thing in the morning on Monday right or somebody will so you can get it y'know we just need to monitor it for a week and that 's it .
15 and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ?
16 But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing .
17 Skill is also required to arrange it for a particular choir , group or instruments .
18 And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future .
19 And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future .
20 But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life .
21 That ‘ little grey home in the west ’ idea was n't going to fool her for a minute ; it was easy to see that the man sitting next to her loved every minute of his fast-living , action-packed life .
22 Nimbus says that when the superscalars become available , cloners will simply have to swap them for the Cypress part .
23 We did n't attempt to touch him for a lizard can easily lose its tail at the defensive snapping point .
24 The staff would n't arrive to set them for a while yet .
25 I wonder whether they were n't trying to get it for the museum .
26 ‘ For some reason he was adamant that he simply had to have me for the make-up on the new play he 's doing . ’
27 Braden did n't even offer to pay him for the ticket .
28 Meester Northcliffe 's friend , you no come to see us for an age .
29 An experienced producer at a major London agency was recently asked to list them for the benefit of newcomers .
30 It was through a family connection , I think — anyway , as expected , she never had to ask me for a reference .
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