Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 2 | The outcome is expected to influence Scottish Homes in deciding whether Waverley or Eildon should go forward for a four-week postal ballot in June . |
| 3 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 4 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 5 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 6 | Yes well I 'll go fortnightly for a little while then it 'll tail off . |
| 7 | One might pay more for a private company because a pre-acquisition investigation could be more thorough . |
| 8 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 9 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 10 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 11 | It was n't until we told him , that he exclaimed ‘ Oh yes , I remember the Institute Netball Team first time round in the 70's — Oh yes , a right tough lot ! ’ — Marion , we 'll get together for a few team tactics eh ? |
| 12 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 14 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |
| 15 | She says yeah she says I 'll pop in for a quick cuppa . |
| 16 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 17 | If you could qualify either for a reduced pension of your own or a dependant 's addition , the higher of the two would be paid . |
| 18 | He 'd speak out for a poor helpless old man like Donny , just as he did for Ireland . ’ |
| 19 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 20 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 21 | We could also decide on points where the accompaniment could take over for a brief period , or perhaps form a dialogue with the melody . |
| 22 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 23 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 24 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 25 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 26 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 27 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I suppose you could go there for a new typewriter , though as I say , they 're mainly interested in bulk orders . |
| 29 | You know , you could pay more for a flashy car . ’ |
| 30 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |