Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
2 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |
3 | She married a colleague who then left to work for a rival firm . |
4 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
5 | Although she had n't expected to , she actually managed to sleep for a few hours that night . |
6 | Though physically a lightly built rugby player , he never hesitated to go for the top league and would be bounced and shaken regularly . |
7 | Grierson was a West Highland Scot , as was immediately evident from his accent , an accent which he never attempted to conceal for the excellent reason that he saw no earthly reason why he ever should . |