Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 2 | OK , ’ he decided , ‘ Once we get home , a bite of lunch , and I 'll beam you up for a quick one . ’ |
| 3 | Besides even if they did n't win it again for the next two million years we 'd never hear the end of it . |
| 4 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 5 | Well if they come round to ours this year I 'll invite them in I 'll take them to my basement and I 'll lock 'em up for a few days . |
| 6 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 7 | Their syllabus should include , on a reading list that would hopefully keep them indoors for a long time , the extensive article published in Mountain dealing with the affair . |
| 8 | they might keep you in for a longer rest |
| 9 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 10 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
| 11 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 12 | ‘ I watch everything I can because I feel this is a tie that could set us up for a good run in Europe , ’ added Creaney . |
| 13 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 14 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 15 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 16 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 17 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 18 | ‘ Why do n't I take you out for a nice dinner this evening ? |
| 19 | what I 'll probably do is take you out for a little while so you can go up and see Annie and all that , next week , not only a |
| 20 | I 'd take him along for a veterinary verdict on these possibilities and take it from there . |
| 21 | " I 'll take her in — yes , why not — I 'll take her in for a small consideration . |
| 22 | ‘ I think , ’ the policeman was saying , ‘ I 'd better take her in for a little talk . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You can leave him behind for a few days . ’ |
| 24 | I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy . |
| 25 | Cost control will serve us well for a single year but it wo n't give us a company that will survive into the next century . |
| 26 | Perhaps student life does not prepare anyone adequately for the daily slog of an ordinary job , and after two or three attempts to settle into a career in sales management and even in personnel , she had taken off for America . |
| 27 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 28 | Yeah , I know he 's admitted it already that does n't mean we 're not gon na get you back for the first time you fucking did it ! |
| 29 | and it 's just a take on , so I watched what I said , but erm , we mentioned it , we , we did n't see very much about it we just said it 's coming up we 'll have , we 'll let you in for a full details next month so |
| 30 | If he insists on calling back , ask him to hold on , and then play a blaring radio down the receiver — that should put him off for a few days . |