Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the choice was hers — she could stay on in the cottage for the weekend as planned , or she could cut her losses and head for home . |
| 2 | It was arranged that Hetty would stay on in the shop for a while , and Sarah would work from ten o'clock until three for the first few weeks . |
| 3 | That 's why I was thinking I might hang on to the Volvo for another two years until you 've got your own car and then I can buy what I really want . |
| 4 | ‘ Just let me jump out of the canoe for you , ’ she muttered through gritted teeth , returning to paddling with a new fury . |
| 5 | He adds the other band members Lorayne Robinson and Ruby Washington will carry on with the group for the sake of their friends who died . |
| 6 | We can whip down to the Bricklayers for a pint . ’ |
| 7 | This made it all the harder for the mother to treat the ailing youngster and she might give up on the treatment for this reason . |
| 8 | Tell you what — get yourself cleaned up and dressed and I 'll run down to the house for something . " |
| 9 | In London or Dublin the girls would look back to the house for healing . |
| 10 | They 'd haunt the alleys behind bakeries , they 'd help themselves from uncollected deliveries , they 'd stick around on the embankment for midnight handouts from the Salvation Army and the Krishna Temple . |
| 11 | ‘ But we did stop off on the way for a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 12 | Will I step up to the cottage for another bottle , or will you , or shall we go without ? |
| 13 | Then I heard him call down from the attic for me to open the stairs door wide . |
| 14 | He had difficulty sleeping and sometimes would call out in the night for me to help him light his pipe . |
| 15 | Soon , the predators would lope out of the desert for her . |
| 16 | The under sheriff must hold on to the balance for 14 days in case any steps should be taken to make the defendant bankrupt , in which case he would have to pay the money he has recovered to the receiver . |
| 17 | Later , after leisurely baths , we would go down to the bar for our aperitifs and continue reading or play cards until dinner , which was always excellent and ended with a savoury — an almost obsolete course , sadly . |
| 18 | It was only when I felt safe with you , and after we had spent some hours working on our poems , that we would go down to the restaurant for late dinner , which always ended with either banana or ‘ flan ’ . |
| 19 | This will be a normal working day for the man and after work he might go off to the pub for a drink with his mates . |
| 20 | He would go off into the mountains for days on end . |
| 21 | ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause . |
| 22 | If I plead guilty to that , I thought , I 'll end up in the nick for the rest of my life . |
| 23 | So one night I did n't go back to the Barracks for supper . |
| 24 | Can you just go back to the picture for a minute ? |
| 25 | The entry will go back into the bag for the Grand Draw , so you 'll have the chance of winning more than one prize if you fill in this section — but it is entirely optional . |
| 26 | ‘ Kenny did stand out from the rest for the job , but it was an extremely hard decision , ’ said Gage . |
| 27 | Where where you know that he can go out to the market for a popular metric bearing and and slaughter the old price |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll go out to the fields for a few hours to try to work off some of this . ’ |
| 29 | The explosion will live on in the memory for a long time . |
| 30 | Only 3 Meteors remain flying in the UK , but their close links with Gloucestershire ensures their memory will live on in the region for years to come . |