Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb mod] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you could find me a garret somewhere near you , where I could live for the next three months , I could finish it , and perhaps get it Published . |
| 2 | Her nightmares had deeply affected Richard , and so Beth had told her husband , ‘ Either they stay close by where I can hear them should they need me … or I 'll arrange for the children , and myself , to move to the east end of the house . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Walk with me , or I 'll charge for every swish . ’ |
| 4 | Or I can go for a brand new what I 've had before , you know not the special edition |
| 5 | Although it 's not a shape that I would recommend for a large picture , it can look very attractive used to decorate cards and calendars . |
| 6 | What my Commander-in-Chief had to say to me is something that I will treasure for the rest of my days — and has only been shared with one other . |
| 7 | Oi think of a project for me that I can do for the next seven weeks . |
| 8 | In time these three will form a screen so that I can arrange for a complete change of scenery on either side . |
| 9 | The best that I can say for a personality explanation is that it prevents executives from thinking about changing their behaviour , because it understandably makes little sense for them to undergo some kind of therapy . |
| 10 | " D' you know " , he told me , " that I can ask for the check in seventeen languages ? " |
| 11 | I began to see that I could ask for the things I needed . |
| 12 | The next day I received a visit from Humphrey Atkins , by then our Chief Whip , telling me in enthusiastic and forceful terms that I should stand for the leadership . |
| 13 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 14 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 15 | We arranged that I 'd go for the weekend , but I would n't leave my sister . |
| 16 | Sometimes I was so affected by a particular view or landscape that I 'd wait for the athletes to run into it before taking a photo . |
| 17 | I thought first of all that I 'd wait for the newspaper reports of the killing and use those as an excuse . |
| 18 | ‘ Which is more than I can say for the rest of this wretched world . ’ |
| 19 | which is more than I can say for the inflatable . |
| 20 | More than I can say for the other fella , Berger . |
| 21 | Now listen , I need an hour 's kip and a bath , so I 'll settle for the bath . |
| 22 | He had me educated so I could speak for the Romanies of today — and of the future . |
| 23 | ‘ You have them next weekend and I 'll look for a house . ’ |
| 24 | An attacking partner would be ideal , and I would go for the left-handed Woolley , one of the most rapid-scoring or batsmen , particularly against fast bowling . |
| 25 | I shall nevertheless vote against the motion and I shall vote for the amendment although as much as I wished it had happened or , or erm a different proposal to Mr because I do n't think it helps your argument when you call your opponents instead of arguing face and er unlike Mr I actually do believe its in subsidiarity and I think we should accept Leicester and Leicester only and what the Leicester hunt will do should be decided here in Leicester , not in Westminster , er any more than the composition of our offices should be , should be decided in Brussels and I believe in subsidiarity . |
| 26 | He gave me £30 a week and I 'd pay for the bills , £12 rent , £5.50 for two bags of coal and the rest went on food . |
| 27 | What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO . |
| 28 | I have emphasized the part played by people like Jack Johnson in uplifting the morale of other blacks and providing reference points for the ambitions of many , and I will argue for the importance of successful black sportsmen in galvanizing blacks ' interests . |
| 29 | If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown , we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind . |
| 30 | If I may digress for a moment , I refer him in turn to the successful water system invented by the Greeks at Pergamon . |