Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 2 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 4 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 5 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 6 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 7 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 8 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 9 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 10 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 11 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 12 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 13 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 14 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 15 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 16 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 17 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 18 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 19 | But Solomona caused more havoc with another explosive burst and the ball was fanned right for full-back Sean Tyrer to stroll over for a sixth Oldham try . |
| 20 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 21 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 22 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 23 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 24 | The officers had been warned to look out for a red Ford Sierra car following the shooting , in the early hours , of Special Constable Goodman and PC Kelly during a routine vehicle check on the A64 Leeds-York Road . |
| 25 | Jill returned in the spring of 1974 and was told to look around for a suitable site . |
| 26 | He 'll be busy , and I 'll have to walk around for a whole hour on my own . |
| 27 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 28 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 29 | She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending . |
| 30 | Whereas it is obvious that the launch must be abandoned anywhere near the ground , halfway up the launch it is reasonable to hold on for a few seconds to see if the speed picks up again . |