Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But United embarked on what Mr Ferguson dubbed ‘ kamikaze football ’ against City and ended up hanging on desperately for a point . |
| 2 | — Sit down again for a minute . |
| 3 | ‘ Sit down again for a while . ’ |
| 4 | This goes down well for a while , until the ‘ MC ’ puppet finally orders them to ‘ kindly leave the stage ’ or to be quiet . |
| 5 | Yeah yes the we went to we used to go down there for a day to Skeggie . |
| 6 | I had to go down there for the preview and then go down and bid . |
| 7 | ‘ Can you hang on here for a few moments ? ’ |
| 8 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 9 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 10 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 11 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 12 | Leeds boss Doug Laughton moved in quickly for the 31-year-old former Test forward after he was listed at £20,000 at his own request . |
| 13 | Leeds boss Doug Laughton moved in quickly for the 31-year-old former Test forward after he was listed at £20,000 at his own request . |
| 14 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |
| 15 | Since July profits have picked up slightly for the first time in 18 months . |
| 16 | I mean they 're probably booked up now for the next three or four years anyway |
| 17 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 18 | Do you remember when we used to come out here for the primroses ? |
| 19 | ‘ We can wait out here for a bit , ca n't we ? ’ he asked . |
| 20 | It is commonplace for me to step outside the door in the morning intending to do one particular task , and then to come back in for a lunchtime bowl of soup having done three or four entirely different jobs of maintenance or repair . |
| 21 | He giggled : ‘ We ought to creep out singly for an assignation . ’ |
| 22 | There was a plop as it landed in the water , then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down . |
| 23 | No pressure group can wait around forever for a change of government that may never come . |
| 24 | Well I mean I 've looked round here for a pair of blinking shoes , the only trouble here er had over here is that I 've got to go somewhere where they 're wide enough and that 's |
| 25 | A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance . |
| 26 | okay Now hold , hold on just for a moment . |
| 27 | They drove on silently for a few minutes and then Mrs Lomax suddenly spoke . |
| 28 | Well she chunters on just for the sake of talking ! |
| 29 | Urquhart sauntered along thoughtfully for a moment , stopped and turned to face her . |
| 30 | It started when some people dropped in unexpectedly for a drink one evening and simply would not go . |