Example sentences of "to see [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 2 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 3 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 4 | ‘ I have to see someone for a minute . |
| 5 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 6 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've wanted to see you for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 8 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 9 | The daughter no longer had to provide care but said ‘ I merely go to see her for a chat and the company nowadays ’ . |
| 10 | He would take frustrating and puzzling journeys on the serpentine British railways to see her for a snatched fraction of a weekend in a provincial rep . |
| 11 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 12 | Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight |
| 13 | Meester Northcliffe 's friend , you no come to see us for an age . |