Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold . |
| 2 | During the period the hired car will be insured under this policy in exactly the same way as your own car is insured and you will only have to pay for the petrol used . |
| 3 | I made a mental note to myself that if the doctor on her case set that beautiful leg anything other than back the way it should be , then he had better start looking for a good dentist . |
| 4 | He supposed he had better start reading for the Bar , quick and easy . |
| 5 | ‘ How could anyone not want to go for a sail on a day like this ? ’ |
| 6 | Likely you 'll not want to stop for a cup of tea ? |
| 7 | ‘ Your father did not want to pay for the doctor , while the priest 'e comes free ! |
| 8 | Enter Rita , a young , timid , nervous , woman in clinging red dress , lipstick to match and a pair of shoes in which you would not want to run for a bus . |
| 9 | He will not normally seek to account for the mental processes involved in any language-user 's production of those sentences , nor to describe the physical or social contexts in which those sentences occur . |
| 10 | By holding one end of this batten against the wall , floor ceiling , and using the tape to measure the gap , you will be able to do it on your own without needing someone to hold the other end of the tape , and will get more accurate measurements , as you will not need to allow for the width of the tape measure case . |
| 11 | We do not need to wait for the Reeve 's Tale for a fabliau in which the Miller can be identified with a target figure : the Miller 's Tale itself links its dramatic teller , the Miller , with John the carpenter as John repeats the Miller 's axiom found in the Miller 's Prologue : in his own homespun wisdom : — a valuing of ignorance which Nicholas is able to play upon ( 3558 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ The players should not need motivating for a match against Manchester United . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you sure you would not like to rest for a little ? ’ enquired Agnes . |
| 14 | The tannoy on the Isle of Man boat gave occasional coughs , and tinny , inaudible announcements , but they did not begin to panic for a while . |
| 15 | Er , what Councillor Newton 's just said , I would just like to ask for a clarification there , if I may . |
| 16 | It 's interesting actually that it says on all the outsides of all the tapes Aston Business School so I 'd just like to say for the benefit of the tape recorder and the British National Corpus , this is where the Business School ends and this is where Psychology takes over . |
| 17 | But she did not pause to listen for an answer . |
| 18 | Sadly , even their combined efforts can not hope to compensate for the many jobs lost . |
| 19 | That sufferers from alcoholism can not stop drinking for a day , a week , a month , a year or more . |
| 20 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 21 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 22 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 23 | An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on . |
| 24 | At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met . |
| 25 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 26 | O'Neill 's suspect views were known to many unionists and the conservatives did not have to wait for the fruits of O'Neillism , however timid they may have been . |
| 27 | The part has an enlarged on-chip primary write-back cache rather than the write-through cache of the 80486 , which means that the CPU does not have to wait for the cache controller to copy stored data back to main memory . |
| 28 | Students do not have to search for the ‘ ideal ’ patient . |
| 29 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 30 | I could not have asked for a better introduction to the summer Alps ’ . |