Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own plans are somewhat uncertain because of the move , but I do plan to get away for a short break some time towards the end of the month , and I will keep you informed . |
| 2 | But no matter ’ — his voice rose now — ‘ you 've got to go there for a time , anyway . |
| 3 | If they 've had to stay indoors for a wet break they 'll want to do something physically very active . |
| 4 | However , perhaps even more significantly , certainly for the junior players , is the opportunity they have earned to go forward for a personal screening at Bradnam 's unique Herts-based Dewhurst Tennis Academy , the operation which has firmly set about the task of uncovering a future British Wimbledon champion . |
| 5 | In practice , however , these ‘ big ’ nations , especially since the 1960s , have had to settle more for a de facto goal of minimizing imports ( mainly from the USA and Japan ) and attempting to achieve a balance of imports and exports on electronics and communications trade . |
| 6 | A good negotiator can make a customer feel satisfied after they have had to work hard for a small discount . |
| 7 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |