Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 2 | as these will ‘ drown ’ if cut below water level , so sufficient length should remain to allow for a fluctuating water level . |
| 3 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
| 4 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 5 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 6 | However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections . |
| 7 | An electrical equipment manufacturer , for example , might decide to go for a fully-fitted kitchen including all their own appliances as the top prize , with a small number of runners-up receiving a toaster or sandwich maker . |
| 8 | I 'll have to go for a little walk . |
| 9 | If Verve expand any further , they 'll have to apply for a live music permit in the next door dimension . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’ |
| 11 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 12 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 13 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 14 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 15 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 16 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 17 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |
| 19 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 20 | ‘ I could go hunting for a black hole , ’ she said , looking at him expectantly . |
| 21 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |
| 22 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 23 | If you think the time may come when you may have to care for an elderly or disabled person in your home , there are also grants available for adapting housing . |
| 24 | For those of you with stepchildren to consider , however , you may wish to opt for a common tenancy and leave half the house to them . |
| 25 | Many elderly people who are in need fail to apply for a supplementary pension or allowance , because they are inclined to regard it as some kind of charity ( a much maligned word ) — which of course it is not , and there should be no loss of pride or dignity for those who apply for it . |
| 26 | He saw the opportunity to play the peace card and the moderate rearmament card at the same time , fortified by the prospect that in times of trouble the public would prefer to vote for an established Government rather than a peculiarly unknown opposition . |
| 27 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 28 | And while no carrier would want to be bound by terms and conditions other than those on the receipt message he sent , no transferee would want to pay for an electronic bill whose terms and conditions are other than those he received . |
| 29 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 30 | Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation . |