Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment .
2 The practical tasks a carer has to carry out for a dementia sufferer are not necessarily , of course , the hardest part of care .
3 Ring her up , see if she wants to come down for a drink .
4 Wants to look around for the wallet while I 'm not here , thought Joe .
5 The premium is either with the product or the purchaser has to send off for the premium .
6 erm there are times , perhaps , when one feels this is a little bit dull and wants to skip on for a page or two , but I suspect that that is the case with most novels that one would want to read nowadays .
7 Sometimes , when activity is particularly intense , the wall of the crater is breached and a small lava flow emerges and flows away downhill , and if this happens , the activity tends to quieten down for a while .
8 Rob Wainwright , who could well have picked up another four caps this season , has recovered from an Achilles tendon operation and hopes to turn out for the home XV , while David Hunter is at full-back for Selkirk .
9 A casual worker who , without good reason , fails to turn up for an assignment which he has accepted is unlikely to be offered assignments in the future .
10 ‘ I 'as to save up for the fare , and when I get there it 's nearly time to come back , ’ Ella said .
11 So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out .
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