Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Hank , if you really want to write for a living you should go to London and Edinburgh , go to Europe , too — perhaps try working for a newspaper or magazine . |
| 2 | ‘ Just keep looking for a more credible suspect with a motive you have n't found yet , I suggest . ’ |
| 3 | All I can suggest sir is the case is adjourned just have to arrange for a solicitor to be here . |
| 4 | In the United States cities already have to argue for a notional amount to compensate for such under-recording : the same will probably have to happen in Britain . |
| 5 | Fast cars always want to go for a ride . |
| 6 | Whatever the vertical and lateral changes in the Coal Measures , we still have to account for a general facies development in late Carboniferous times that extends in essentially the same form all the way from Texas to the Donetz coal basin , north of the Caspian Sea in the U.S.S.R. This amounts to some 170 of longitude , and closing up the Atlantic by a mere 40 does not really help all that much in explaining this remarkable phenomenon . |
| 7 | However , seven countries still refuse to vote for a total prohibition , including Japan , which is the leading protester and which today has the largest whaling fleet . |
| 8 | I also intend to recommend for a , you know , a non-fire service humanitarian award . |
| 9 | ‘ You know , Hank , if you really want to write for a living you should go to London and Edinburgh , go to Europe , too — perhaps try working for a newspaper or magazine . |
| 10 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 11 | Having them both here busy looking for a flat for JONATHAN , who becomes nicer and nicer as he grows up ( and who can it seems sleep twelve hours on the trot night after night ) is quite exhausting , and at times annoying . |
| 12 | In these cases I either have to wait for a passing walker and ask for assistance , try to reverse my direction or take the plunge and risk damage to chair and body . |