Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Herborising was also conducted by the Demonstrator who led his more expert colleagues further afield , sometimes to the coast where they would remain for a couple of days or more . |
| 2 | Soon this was to be entered and then only Tibet and Ethiopia would remain for a time unresponsive to European politics , ideas and technology . |
| 3 | The train had already left Sion when the avalanche struck and with the possibility of further minor falls it had retreated to the sanctuary of the station where the passengers were told it would remain for the rest of the night . |
| 4 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
| 5 | And impressive though it is , at the moment , the mural will remain for the owner 's eyes only . |
| 6 | Other propositions may not be testable even in principle but may remain for the time as a necessary component of an overall paradigm . |
| 7 | No , it seems that the drifter will remain for the time being in the form of the original although we will keep working on it . |
| 8 | ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Let me think for a while . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute . |
| 11 | Do n't think for a minute I 'm jealous . |
| 12 | Naturally I did n't think for a minute that my life and spirit could stimulate her . |
| 13 | I do n't think for a minute that I can work them out in movies . |
| 14 | I do n't think for a minute we 'll have to . ’ |
| 15 | I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child . |
| 17 | Right , well let's just think for a minute exactly what you just said , can you repeat to me roughly what you 've just said ? |
| 18 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
| 19 | It 's a frustrating affair though — do n't think for a second that you can breeze through this game ; think yourself lucky if you get past the first few levels ! |
| 20 | The effect is to make you think for a second that the church is only half there , that there must once have been a second side to it , to the right of the tower . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , now that we 've decided that nothing is going to happen tonight that does n't happen every Saturday night in Pepe 's Bar , tell me — why on earth can you even think for a second that Miguel is falling for me ? ’ |
| 22 | Do n't you think for a rock'n'roll band it is somewhat stupid to promote this government idea , especially here in Belgium ? ’ |
| 23 | But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd love to help her , and I know every one of us would ; but I do n't think for a moment that Miss Miggs would let us pay her fare , even if we could raise so much money . ’ |
| 25 | And I do n't think for a moment that I 'm alone in feeling this way . |
| 26 | Aggressive criticisms of assembly-line education such as this from the 1930s should cause us to stop and think for a moment . |
| 27 | Do n't think for a moment that the women are all on the creative side of the business . |
| 28 | He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces . |
| 29 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 30 | He should think for a moment what that means . |