Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This must make it hard for the agencies who undertake to deliver telephone sales messages . |
| 2 | And we should accept it also for the sake of our sinful world . |
| 3 | No , I 'll give 'em away for a farthin' . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll have a bath an' all an' my brither-in-law 'll see me right for the gear . ’ |
| 5 | I 'll join you later for the barbecue . ’ |
| 6 | If he replied that he was , his new friends might address him so for the future , and he could imagine what Bigwig and Silver would have to say about that . |
| 7 | He said he 'd put them away for a bit and give them to Oliver when he started smoking again . |
| 8 | Even before you understand the words of a text you could play it sometimes for the sake of the intonation , as mentioned in ch. 2.1.1. of this book under the heading of LISTENING . |
| 9 | ‘ That may appeal to you , but there 's no way I would consider it even for a moment . ’ |
| 10 | The size and weight of the larger models would suit them only for a fairly hefty boat . |
| 11 | ‘ Fortunately , the nail had only gone into his chest wall and did not enter his lungs , we shall keep him here for a day or two under observation . ’ |
| 12 | She would see– him occasionally for the rest of her life , and she wanted to be able to chat to him , invite him for more games of chess , more visits to historic gardens . |
| 13 | I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters . |
| 14 | ‘ I shall pay you well for the boots , of course , ’ Charles said in a matter-of-fact tone that did little to conceal his emotions . |
| 15 | Though she 'd never worked in insurance , her potential employers thought her smiling manner and evident efficiency would equip her well for the task , particularly as she appeared a quick learner , and did well in the practical assignment they gave her during the period of the interview itself . |
| 16 | We get a glimpse of it when Curtis argues , in support of his view that America should have Near Eastern mandates , that this would place her advantageously for the regeneration of post-revolutionary Russia ; as ‘ steward of the Near East ’ , she could ‘ extend to the blind giant the neighbourly hand of a friendship which is open to no suspicion ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 18 | Because terms like highway hypnosis , DWA and DWAM have been used somewhat indiscriminately in the literature previously this thesis will reserve them exclusively for the hypothetical trance-like state which may be a precursor to motorway accidents and use Reason 's term ‘ time-gap experience ’ to refer to this second phenomenon . |
| 19 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 20 | Cost control will serve us well for a single year but it wo n't give us a company that will survive into the next century . |
| 21 | In giving orders to subordinates , an official will go by the rule book and will blame someone else for the existence of the rules where his decision appears inappropriate . |
| 22 | Entrenched competitors can make it hard for a supplier to win new orders . |
| 23 | They can give you more for a start . |
| 24 | Is it not high time that a proper review was carried out of exacty what space exists throughout the Palace , so that we can use it well for the benefit of our constituents and for other purposes ? |
| 25 | ‘ You can leave him behind for a few days . ’ |
| 26 | And he said if they can get someone else for the run they will . |
| 27 | Well then , if , we can put them away for a week |