Example sentences of "[vb -s] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sapinta , three miles south of the Russian border , a chambermaid begs for a packet of ground coffee to meet a doctor 's bill ; when the doctor arrives , he complains wearily that there is no anaesthetic in the hospitals . |
| 2 | My records nee go it it plays for a bit , then it goes brurgh ! |
| 3 | As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while , scatters silver seed and dances away again , unnoticed . |
| 4 | Well that depends on the club that he goes to , I mean if the club can afford to buy him erm I always think it 's better on the long term policy , that a rider actually rides for a club is owned by that club . |
| 5 | Hand will play three-times former champion Jeremy Bates or qualifier Mike Wyeth for a place in Sunday 's final . |
| 6 | She sits for a while beside them , her arm laid alongside the nightlight on the table ; the shoe of the Old Woman , with a pink bulb inside , lifts the shadows in a comforting way . |
| 7 | She sits for a moment on the arm of the chair , and rests her hand on my neck . |
| 8 | By a painter who befriends him , and who sleeps for a while with his mother , Jaromil , already self-perceived as exceptional , original , is introduced to modern art , which ‘ had not yet become the shopworn property of the bourgeois masses and retained the fascinating aura of a sect , a magical exclusivity fascinating to childhood — an age always daydreaming about the romanticism of secret societies , fraternities and tribes ’ . |
| 9 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 10 | Jude Callister is a former archaeologist who now knits for a living , and designs part-time for the telecottage . |
| 11 | The fan thinks for a second or two and then says ‘ OK where 's the bucket and spade ’ . ’ |
| 12 | He thinks for a while . |
| 13 | Fred thinks for a moment . |
| 14 | No one who thinks for a moment will suppose that that is a path in which there are no hills to climb . |
| 15 | Crilly thinks for a moment . |
| 16 | ‘ Look lady , for what other people pay for a one-way ticket to Chicago , you can travel anywhere Delta flies for a month . ’ |
| 17 | Lovejoy 's love goes for a song |
| 18 | wait a minute , we 'll leave that in there we 'll let it go out , see how it goes for a couple of months , Glen will know where we can use any money for that anyway for a couple of months |
| 19 | She 's having treatment still , she she goes for a couple of days at a time . |
| 20 | Do n't you get two goes for a double ? |
| 21 | And what goes for a right and a liberty is also true of the other cornerstones of moral language : duty , obligation , right , wrong . |
| 22 | Goes for a walk , for example , and takes a look at the Hamilton house and that delectable stretch of milk-white sand bordering the machair . |
| 23 | Every time he writes a report , makes a decision , goes for a walk , he is seizing an investment opportunity . |
| 24 | A girl goes for a walk . |
| 25 | Now , you start that building that information into the first statement of the girl goes for a walk . |
| 26 | Yeb goes for a walk . |
| 27 | She just goes for a walk . |
| 28 | The same goes for a comparison of £3.3million Shearer and Mike Newell with Forest 's Peter Withe and Tony Woodcock . |
| 29 | And that goes for a lot of businesses ! |
| 30 | These small rows of houses look as if they had been dumped down like baggage on a railway platform while the owner goes for a sandwich . |