Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 2 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 3 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 4 | I mean for a while I think it was maybe my glasses , but these are just new |
| 5 | I mean for a it 's a habit , why he walks like that because he 's come home from the Duke so many times pissed in n it ? |
| 6 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 7 | But I mean for a |
| 8 | I lay for a while simply wrestling with the enormity of it . |
| 9 | I lay for a while waiting for the chateau to fall silent again before drifting into a demon-filled sleep of black war horses rearing above me , men flying through the night air , and those dreadful corpses laid out so tidily , so neatly , in that beautiful London garden . |
| 10 | Bit too complicated I fear for a terrace chant … still — I like it ! ! |
| 11 | I long for a blockbuster that 's also good writing . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ How I long for a return to wingers , all-out attack — and entertainment . ’ |
| 13 | I long for a more matter-of-fact , common sense approach to environmental action . |
| 14 | Do you know , I long for a family more than anything in the world ? ’ she blurted out with an intense yearning . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I do n't mind , ’ said Ianthe , watching an old woman watering plants on a nearby roof ‘ How I long for a cup of tea ! ’ she went on , coming back into the room . |
| 16 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
| 17 | Oh , we was there — I expect for a month . |
| 18 | ‘ If I pose for a photograph will you all go away and leave me to some peace and quiet ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'll do what I want for a change ! |
| 20 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 21 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
| 22 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 23 | ii : ‘ I pause for a reply ’ , BH 3 ; SB 14 . |
| 24 | ‘ I pause for a reply ’ , BH 3 ; SB 14 . |
| 25 | I pause for a reply ’ |
| 26 | I just say , ’ I act for a living ’ . ’ |
| 27 | Unless one supposes there to be two categorially different kinds of appearances presented to the mind it will then seem that this flat circle must be the only object of visual perception , and the round globe I seem to see , the epistemic appearance , must really be a judgement I mistake for a sensation . |
| 28 | I listen for a bit to hear if anyone 's going to answer the door . |
| 29 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 30 | ‘ I hope for a rapprochement between our two countries , which know very little about each other , ’ he said . |