Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the hedge marking the foot of the field I have to look for a minute to find a way through . |
| 2 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 3 | Gill , 27 , said last night : ‘ Ever since I have been in football I have yearned for a chance to play in Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 5 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 6 | Heavy with child I come to ask for an extraction . |
| 7 | The dispute between Huddersfield Polytechnic and Kirklees Metropolitan Council which has continued for a number of years illustrates most of the tensions which may develop between a polytechnic and its local authority . |
| 8 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 9 | Not long after acquiring Belle Vue Cottage she began to search for a piece of land in the Cotherstone area , preferably a fenced-i-meadow . |
| 10 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 11 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 12 | Or as Marshall P. Knutt , the conscientious sanitary engineer who gets mistaken for a hot-shot and ends up the hero of Carry On Cowboy . |
| 13 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 14 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 15 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 16 | Parents who have watched their children grow and develop are just as likely to have insights into the development of their child as the teacher who has taught for a couple of years . |
| 17 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 18 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 20 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 21 | If you do intend to use it , you register the program with the author , and pay whatever fee he has specified for a licence to continue using it . |
| 22 | Until yesterday this was the nearest Mike Cratchley thought he was going to get to the chateau he had booked for a group holiday this summer . |
| 23 | Cagey hobby : Dr Graham Tydeman inside the Silence of the Lambs-style cage he has constructed for an exhibition |
| 24 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 25 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 26 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 27 | Solicitors are frequently appointed not only in the legal departments but in the secretarial departments of large concerns ; but a person who intends to go for a secretarial department would be better advised to obtain a secretarial rather than a legal qualification ( to have both would , of course , be best of all ) . |
| 28 | The second day he started looking for a house to rent . |
| 29 | Sir : After reading a review in your magazine I decided to send for a shareware copy of Return to Kroz . |
| 30 | Only child Adele wrote after reading about a local teenager who died waiting for a swap op . |