Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 2 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 3 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 4 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 5 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 6 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 7 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 8 | When Deckard asks his wife why she has programmed herself for a ‘ six hour self-accusatory depression ’ , she says |
| 9 | ‘ First , my miserable Yankee friend , the good Brigadeführer Farber has recommended you for an immediate Iron Cross First Class which , from what he says , you deserve . ’ |
| 10 | I am pleased to have the opportunity to raise this subject which has interested me for a long time . |
| 11 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 12 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 13 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 14 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 15 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |
| 16 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 17 | you certainly do need to keep them for a while . |
| 18 | The signing of Byrne is exciting … he gets goals … has scored them for a list of clubs … |
| 19 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 20 | The clever Ephron has taken him for a very long ride indeed . |
| 21 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 22 | Your wife has left you for a continuous period of two years . |
| 23 | Having acted in a Conservative manner , especially at election times , one starts to take oneself for a Conservative ( i.e. Bem , 1967 ) . |
| 24 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 26 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I am writing to thank you for a lovely holiday near Brno in Czechoslovakia at the Hotel Form . |
| 28 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 29 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 30 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |