Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have carpenters ready to cut off their tusks ; then , at the spot where the tower is to be built , you must lie down and sleep for seven nights with your head pillowed on the sack of basil . |
| 2 | When he gets home he will sit down and weep for all his hopes and plans and dreams . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach . |
| 4 | Sam wants the plane and all the coke in it and Dwayne and the rest can fuck off and die for all he cares . |
| 5 | Fish featured largely in our diet during our stay , and being a keen fisherman I longed to get offshore and try for some of the bigger game fish . |
| 6 | At night I would often get up and go for long walks in the school grounds , especially when the moon was full and I felt particularly restless , enjoying the silence and solitude of the woods . |
| 7 | It is the only way the women of West Belfast are able to actually able to take on further education and if you ca n't stand up and fight for that then West Belfast is not working . |
| 8 | So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work . |
| 9 | They much appreciate the work being done by Mrs Doyle , but they are not in a walk of life where they can sit back and wait for better times . |
| 10 | Let's go back and wait for better weather . ’ |
| 11 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 12 | ‘ Sure there 's only me that can do nothing but lie here and pray for all of you . ’ |
| 13 | one of these was the compensation pendulum , in which brass and steel are used to move freely and compensate for different co-efficients of expansion . |