Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A successor ( all Heads of Department were eligible for election ) had proved hard to find and for a brief period the chairmanship of the Course had been taken over by the Deputy Director , Brian Tonge . |
| 2 | But then they fall asleep , and Gollum returns , to see and for a moment to love and aspire to the ‘ peace ’ he sees in their faces . |
| 3 | As the country found itself on the brink of a constitutional crisis , Mr Havel said the best way to avert such a crisis would be for President Husak to quit and for a strong prime minister to assume his authority temporarily , as the constitution permits . |
| 4 | He went into his room and put on a record while he decided what to do and for a time became lost in the music . |
| 5 | She started to read and for a moment lost her rigid self-consciousness in admiring delight at her own writing , its clarity and generosity . |
| 6 | Lakeside resident Denton Bell said : ‘ Will we have to wait for somebody to die or for a building to burn down before something is done ? ’ |