Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to go out for a ride in the open air . ’ |
| 2 | Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just . |
| 3 | I think it 's brilliant , and when I came out of hospital you said mummy , I said I want to stay here for a couple of days is that Stacey ? |
| 4 | I hope to stay here for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 6 | I 've looked everywhere for a weapon , but there 's nothing of any use , even if I had the strength and skill . |
| 7 | I 've settled now for a sort of uniform during the day of a skirt , silk shirt and a jacket , with a three-quarter length cashmere coat over it in winter . |
| 8 | It 's certainly a , a day of reflection an and great appreciation on a part of all of us , the reason we 're here er for me , personally , I need to back up for a moment perhaps . |
| 9 | He was absolutely right to welcome the substantial increases that I have announced today for a range of programmes . |
| 10 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 11 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 12 | I have thought so for a very long time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You have to remember that Tim , Sue and I have worked together for a very long time now . |
| 14 | I promise to come out for a drink or dinner , even a game of tennis with you . ’ ’ |
| 15 | You want to go out for a wee wee puss ? |
| 16 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 17 | ‘ But you want to stay on for a couple more days ? |
| 18 | You try to get up for a cup of tea |
| 19 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 21 | You have to sit down for a minute — |
| 22 | More often than not you have to work hard for a few fish . |
| 23 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 24 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've worked together for a very long time . ’ |
| 26 | weekend that we are arranging this summer as we have done annually for a number of years . |
| 27 | We have to stop here for a moment to sort out the coordinates . |
| 28 | Well I think we have to stop there for a little while because it 's nine o'clock , and I 've just got erm a few more pictures to show you later on so if we have a short break now , I think the coffee ladies are ready . |
| 29 | We are urgently searching for a set — I 've been informed that some surviving sets are twisted — and if it means that we have to look abroad for a new set in Poland than so be it ! |
| 30 | You 're obviously more cautious than you were before , and erm a lot of kids now they tend to stand back for a while just in case 'cause you can never judge how fast they 're really going to go through there . |