Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] for a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 2 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 3 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 4 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 5 | Eliot goes on to wish for a combination of religious , anthropological , and neurological knowledge as exemplified by Rome , Cambridge , and Harley Street . |
| 6 | Sports reporting certainly had its difficulties for the live commentator , who might be held up to ridicule for a lapse of sense or grammar in the heat of the moment . |
| 7 | Two trade bodies were set up to press for a system of price fixing : the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland in 1895 and the Publishers Association in 1896 . |
| 8 | One evening Friday went out to look for a turtle for meat and eggs . |
| 9 | George and Bute set out to press for a policy of peace and lower taxes , which recognized the great strain the economy had been asked to bear . |
| 10 | Then dig out to allow for a layer of hardcore plus about 75mm ( 3in ) of concrete on top . |
| 11 | Hun Sen went on to call for a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in Bangkok . |
| 12 | It happened at Christmas 1975 and the surgeon was just about to leave for a holiday with his family East . |