Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 2 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 3 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 4 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 5 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 6 | If you like a mild cheese , buy pasteurised Stilton , but for the true flavour of the cheese , do look out for the unpasteurised cheeses . |
| 7 | The prosecution 's success rate does not augur well for the two trials which will really test the quality of Boesky 's information and the deal that he pulled off with government lawyers . |
| 8 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
| 9 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
| 10 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 11 | The disk will whizz around for a few seconds , and then you get the rows of statistics . |
| 12 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 13 | Often , it was argued that science degrees qualified students to enter ‘ general ’ jobs such as management as well as specialized scientific ones , whereas arts students could apply only for the general jobs . |
| 14 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , if you would also remain here for a few moments , Madame Ash , perhaps Madame Craig would be so kind as to come this way ? ’ |
| 16 | Can SHe stay here for a few days ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 18 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 19 | We 'll go right for the awkward ones and put an X and a Y in as well . |
| 20 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 21 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 22 | And , although I did go home for a few holidays , most I seem to remember were spent elsewhere with friends or at special holiday camps that some of the other boarders went to . ’ |
| 23 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 24 | Do not stand up for a few moments . |
| 25 | But we 're not content in in the government to let it rest there for the poorest countries , the very poorest countries , even more help is urgently needed . |
| 26 | Some think that he will go abroad for a few days and the CIA will then engineer his return in a countercoup , just as it did in 1953 . |
| 27 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 28 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 29 | She said to me , " Ca n't you get away for a few days ? " |
| 30 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |