Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 2 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 3 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 4 | Staffing standards therefore exceed the 4/73 baseline by a fifth and that should be welcomed so far as it is an attempt to provide favourably for a group in need . |
| 5 | If you are planning to work overseas for an organisation with which you are not very familiar , it makes sense to check that they are a bona fide , reputable organisation with a good track record of treating executive employees fairly . |
| 6 | Following the thought of my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) , may I invite the Minister to come there for a walk with his dog on Christmas day to envisage the damage that the new road will cause ? |
| 7 | In the case of this applicant , he would have been happy to have obtained any place in the service , for he hoped to arrange thereafter for a transfer to the stations which he really desired , Coldingham or Eyemouth , where he had business interests . |
| 8 | You should continue to walk aerobically for a minimum of 30 minutes each day , four times a week ; and you should continue to use the low fat Walking Diet recipes and adapt them to your own diet . |
| 9 | As I have argued all along , although a consideration of possible criteria is important in a wider context , the idea of numerical identity can not be literally " defined " in terms of the criteria of re-identification of particulars , which means that we shall have to look elsewhere for an answer to our problem . |
| 10 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 11 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 12 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 13 | Electoral democracy produces a ready-made machine for minority groups to fight effectively for a share of central resources , once they learn to act as a group and are sufficiently concentrated for electoral purposes . |
| 14 | These perceived injustices led the trade union and labour movement to campaign vigorously for an end to the insurance system and for a single universal , Exchequer-funded scheme to cover all forms of primary care . |
| 15 | ‘ If you can bear to wait here for a couple of minutes , I 'll go and see . ’ |
| 16 | I have selected these six passages because they appear to me to call effectively for a rethinking of practically every aspect of the pre-1967 school curriculum in Tanzania — its underlying values , the structure , the balance between in-school and out-of-school activities , the content and pacing of the materials in relation to the age of the learners and the whole process and attitude towards evaluation . |
| 17 | Some leaders of the popular front movement — Victor Gollancz for one — began to call openly for an acceleration of rearmament : though here he parted company with the Communist Party . |
| 18 | A procedure adopted by some authorities to estimate recurrent expenditure is to assume that user needs and the number of new titles required are fairly constant and to allow simply for an increase in the price of materials . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On his visit to London we were able to get together for a bit of a jam and a chat about some of the parts he played on the ‘ new ’ album … |
| 21 | And we always try to get together for a while in the same room before we play a concert , just to make sure we have a talk and a laugh . |
| 22 | I have sometimes wondered if they , Cooper and McMahon ever managed to get together for a rubber of whist or bridge . |
| 23 | What we both needed was to get away for a couple of days , to go somewhere peaceful , relaxing and free of any association with the past , where we could work out where we stood . |
| 24 | She had been so pleased when Dr. Briant had suggested she lunch with him in the medical staff dining room , aching as she was to get away for a while at least from the uncomfortable atmosphere of the Maternity Ward . |
| 25 | He was delighted that Hoare planned to get away for a holiday in Switzerland . |
| 26 | She was glad to get away for a change of scene , as it had just been confirmed that Steve had been killed , and her place was taken by Nancy , a tall , dark Scots girl , who fitted into the Met team very well . |
| 27 | Pulling herself together once more , Rachel 's mouth tightened and she knew the best thing would be to get away for an hour by going to lunch and pushing all thoughts of Damian Flint from her mind . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get home for a drop of rum — I 've really missed that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll have to stay here for a while on business , ’ my friend the captain told me . |
| 30 | Are you going to stay here for a couple of days , where you 'll be safe ? |