Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you rather wait for the other ladies ? ’ he ventured , obviously torn between his duty and the thought of her sitting alone in such rowdy company for several minutes . |
| 2 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 3 | According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle this ‘ virtual ’ photon can only exist for a time . |
| 4 | Only at the last minute , by forced marches , would it suddenly make for the Channel coast . |
| 5 | A problem may obviously arise for the builder where the nominated supplier makes deliveries late in the month and the relevant invoices are not available at the date of the valuation . |
| 6 | And I got up and I was gon na tie her up like but and by gosh I thought I 'd better make for the door again . |
| 7 | Breathless , she straightened up and said fiercely , ‘ You can only stay for a minute and then you must promise to go . ’ |
| 8 | However campers should only stay for a night or two , be unobtrusive and sensitive to wildlife , and leave no litter . |
| 9 | Those moths that settle there will probably only stay for a day and then continue higher still . |
| 10 | Warned that she could only stay for a few moments , Laura had sat down quietly in a chair beside the bed , taking her cousin 's inert , pale hand and praying , as she had never prayed before , that Liz would be able to survive her ordeal . |
| 11 | ‘ We can only stay for an hour , ’ said Ginnie . |
| 12 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 13 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 14 | As Cati left , she continued , to Sabina , who was sprinkling flour into a basin and whirling it into a dough with her fist , ‘ But you can only wait for the storming to pass … . ’ |
| 15 | She 's worried any of them could be killed … and for now she can only wait for the missing cat to return |
| 16 | In ordinary aquarium sand or gravel it will merely survive for a few months . |
| 17 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 18 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 19 | Each driving the other towards the kind of frustration which you can only feel for a family member . |
| 20 | One can only feel for the Jesuits : when their Order was dissolved in 1777 , they had only enjoyed the finished church for two years . |
| 21 | ‘ Better send for an ambulance , ’ I said heavily , taking in the scene as I wondered what to do next . |
| 22 | What else is his Eucharist but , at a higher level , an endless act of fruitful out-pouring of his whole flesh , such as a man can only achieve for a moment with a limited organ of his body ? |
| 23 | We can all watch for the Labour block vote at the end of this debate as a matter of principle , I could never vote in support of the Labour whip . |
| 24 | In order not to dull your pleasure I intend to only speak for a few minutes in case we all get snowed in/melt away in the heat ! |
| 25 | And in that I can only speak for the Harrogate District erm but the situation may well apply to other districts . |
| 26 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 27 | If it did n't , I thought re-reading had better keep for a rainy day . |
| 28 | It is no real objection to Bentham that we can only look for an approximation to the truth about these matters of pleasure and pain . |
| 29 | Ellen wondered if she should perhaps look for a replacement , but put it off . |
| 30 | So remember — study to learn the subject ; do not merely work for the examination . |