Example sentences of "[verb] here for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'll wait here for a bit I mean you 'll queue at the others if I turn round . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't come here for a history lesson , ’ said the Doctor . |
| 3 | ‘ There must have been a reason to come here for a day . ’ |
| 4 | You may think it is a rum thing that a chap like Tim should pay an arm and a leg to come here for a year and then teach us a thing or two but then I am perfectly happy to admit that we do n't know everything . |
| 5 | ‘ The reason I chose to come here for a job was because I thought I had relations here . |
| 6 | The reason is that foreign companies want to come here for a highly trained and highly motivated work force who work for good British companies . |
| 7 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 8 | It is worth pausing here for a moment to reflect on the weight of traditional thinking that McDowell is seeking to shift : |
| 9 | Greta Ross said , ‘ Please wait here for a minute , Mrs Sanders . |
| 10 | ‘ We came here for a purpose . |
| 11 | It is interesting to see the gravestones of the numerous people who came here for a cure for consumptive diseases and remained for ever . |
| 12 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 13 | The women lived with it — some of them came here for a week and then went back to it . |
| 14 | When a dog does start to show signs of becoming difficult about a visit to the surgery , you may want to arrange with your vet simply to walk up to the waiting room , pause here for a few moments and then return home . |
| 15 | There 's a club meeting here for a social weekend — I think they like to keep their places warm here for when coarse fishing starts again . |
| 16 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 17 | The chefs and waiters will work here for a year . |
| 18 | just lie here for a few moments . |
| 19 | It 'd be nice to be waiting here for a train and then getting on it and going somewhere nice . |
| 20 | ‘ Now just stand here for a minute and listen . ’ |
| 21 | He pulled me to a halt and said , ‘ Willie , stand here for a minute . |
| 22 | Just stand here for a minute and eat your ice cream . |
| 23 | But despite the presence of several musical forms here — canzonas , capriccios , ricercars and motets — and it does begin to sound a bit samey , and I was just beginning to tap my fingers halfway through when the Loeki Stardusters began their arrangements of a part of Palestrina 's Lamentations of Jeremiah , a hauntingly beautiful piece of music , arranged here for a lower-pitched recorders than the rest of the programme . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I 'll be staying here for a while , sharing the caravan with Boz and Alamena . ’ |
| 25 | In fact , with your permission , I 'll start now and stop here for a while . |
| 26 | Erm that might , might interest you to know that during the past ten years I have personally entertained something like a hundred visitors from the States who are with their families er , of course , er returned here for a look , look round . |
| 27 | ‘ If you art hit on the torso , from head to knees but excluding the arms , that is a hit and you must return here for a penalty of five minutes . |
| 28 | There is a real feel here for a developing area of research , which avoids giving a misleading impression that the current state of the art provides any ultimate answers , handed down on tablets of stone from above . |
| 29 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 30 | A spokeswoman for the Guides Association said yesterday : ‘ She worked here for a short while and I suppose it was just a job to her . ’ |