Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 2 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 3 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 4 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 5 | It is quite usual to seek translation in tables of regnal years such as those printed in the more common reference books without , perhaps , recognising the historical significance of the system or the traps which lie within it for the unwary . |
| 6 | Just stand by me for a little bit longer . |
| 7 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 8 | We 'll be previewing the new speedway season , there 's a look at the greyhound news and a round up of all the local leagues , so stay with us for the next hour . |
| 9 | wishes to retire as Editor after the May issue of Medau News , and our thanks go to her for a long and excellent Editorship . |
| 10 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 11 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
| 12 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 13 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |
| 14 | We pray to you for the mastered will , |
| 15 | We pray to you for the quiet mind , |
| 16 | We pray to you for the stalwart faith , |
| 17 | We pray to you for the enlightened imagination , |