Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if you merely ask for a repetition of the number , it still may not be clear if it is fourteen or forty . |
| 2 | If you enviously yearn for a PC sound card but ca n't afford one , Guildsoft 's Icon Hear-It for Windows might be the answer . |
| 3 | Even if you only work for a few hours a week , take out professional indemnity insurance . |
| 4 | We live in hope that John Hume 's mission to the Provos will succeed , like we always wish for a good summer . |
| 5 | If we just pause for a moment and look at the A C C digest that the papers see . |
| 6 | If he also asks for a large deposit , the alarm bells should be ringing . |
| 7 | Well he 's got to ring Mr and see if he if he really pushes for a month 's notice well we 'll have to just pay another month and stay you know ? |
| 8 | So if you complain about your council tax , do n't , students are exempt anyway so that 's alright , if you complain about your council tax do n't because it only pays for a very small fraction of what local authorities spend . |
| 9 | My only desire was to keep these hideous creatures at bay whilst I desperately looked for a gap in the ring of steel surrounding me . |
| 10 | There are therefore two important pieces of preparation which you should make before you even apply for a job , let alone go for an interview for it . |
| 11 | Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm . |
| 12 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 13 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 14 | Seeds may be collected but be quick as they only float for a short time . |
| 15 | Midst all this , Atherton , who had fought desperately hard for almost 4½ hours , made an allowable mistake when he wearily felt for a rare straightish and wider ball from Waqar . |
| 16 | Housekeeper Anne Jackson told how Mr Elton had turned the sitting room of his £750,000 London flat into an office as he desperately hunted for a new job . |
| 17 | Emboldened by Carters support , the Shah ordered the publications of the scurrilous attack on Khomeini which precipitated the first of the riots against him and , within a year , had led to his fall , by early 1979 , after what he saw as US failure to support him , and as he now looked for a refuge form Morocco he was less certain . |