Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a Services Division to support them for a transitional period |
| 2 | In 1989 , the wife of the " Yorkshire Ripper " was awarded £600,000 by a jury to compensate her for a false story in " Private Eye " , published eight years previously , to the effect that she had been prepared to sell her story to newspapers . |
| 3 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 4 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 5 | The eyes flickered up to meet mine for a split second before returning to his notes . |
| 6 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 7 | TO our delight Edinburgh 's own novelist Lucilla Andrews accepted and invitation to visit us for a formal presentation of some signed copies of her books . |
| 8 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read . |
| 11 | ‘ I am writing to thank you for a lovely holiday near Brno in Czechoslovakia at the Hotel Form . |
| 12 | Indeed sometimes this spirit of God comes to specific people to endow them for a particular task . |
| 13 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 14 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 15 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 16 | If you would like to nominate someone for a future issue , send the details to at . |
| 17 | We train to do something for a particular purpose , to develop the performance of specific tasks or skills . |
| 18 | By then she felt that she had seen enough paintings , churches , marble floors and medieval palaces to last her for a long time . |
| 19 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 20 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , but nobody 's going to consider you for a junior post any more . ’ |
| 22 | I intended at first only to teach her needlework to qualify her for a genteel position , for you see she has a delicacy in her person that makes it a pity ever to put her to hard work , but she masters everything so fast that now I am desirous to have to divert and entertain me in my thoughtful hours . |
| 23 | Oh no , we 'll pay to keep her for a long time |
| 24 | Unwelcome tears threatened again to expose him for a big softie . |
| 25 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 26 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 27 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 28 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 29 | She , Clarissa , was not looking forward to telephoning Lady Southdown , as she was bound to do , to thank her for a lovely evening . |
| 30 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |