Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A file should exist online for the module but can not be found . |
| 2 | The approaching host could not head directly for the town because of the suddenly-widening river-mouth , having to swing off somewhat to the left , westwards , to reach the Spittal or Town ford , the nearest crossing , whose natural shallows had been improved by an underwater causeway of stone slabs . |
| 3 | Dublin said : ‘ I hope my first goal will now help me settle and show I can score more for the club and the fans who have been so good . ’ |
| 4 | I shall sleep here for the night and start home in the morning . ’ |
| 5 | The Department of the Environment would pay largely for the building and the Department of the Education and Science for the works of art , reflecting their respective spheres of responsibility . |
| 6 | ‘ It might mean overtime for the physio but we need all our strikers fit to face the Reds . ’ |
| 7 | ah , just a sec we will go away for the day if my |
| 8 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 9 | She gave me the tip she 'd put aside for the waitress and then raided her purse again to replace it . |
| 10 | Now , by early spring 1837 , Darwin had decided that such purely adaptational explanations could not account adequately for the timing and placing of either the extinctions of old species or the origins of new ones . |