Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 2 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 3 | He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity . |
| 4 | ‘ I just need to lie down for a while . |
| 5 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 6 | Conflict with authority : Family members may repeatedly try to cover up for the misdeeds of the primary sufferer and may be exceedingly angry with various authorities when they themselves are found out . |
| 7 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 8 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 9 | And if , for some reason , he has really chosen to drop out for a while , he would n't be grateful for too much fuss , would he ? ’ |
| 10 | I wish I thought better about the opportunities 1992 has to offer , but realistically I do n't think we 've even begun to limber up for the competition . ’ |
| 11 | The opposition to Raybestos then appeared to die down for the following year , only to return with a vengeance in 1980 . |
| 12 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 13 | I was almost tempted to strip off for a plunge but sensed , then saw , a figure on the bank above . |
| 14 | This ‘ bad faith ’ operates among the doctors and pharmacists who allow their knowledge and skill to be abused ; among the politicians who wish to see themselves as community benefactors , while knowing full well that they are nothing of the sort ; and even among the poor who are so often critical of the medical ‘ care ’ they receive yet continue to hold out for a medical solution to their social and economic problems . |
| 15 | They therefore decided to break up for a while because , Dustin said , ‘ I wanted my fling . |