Example sentences of "[verb] to [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 2 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 3 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 4 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 5 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 6 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 7 | May I speak to you for a moment ? ’ he asked in a lower tone . |
| 8 | Listen to me for a moment . ’ |
| 9 | " Senga , listen to me for a moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Madam , listen to me for a moment . |
| 11 | Now calm down , and listen to me for a minute . |
| 12 | ‘ No , Nicolo , you listen to me for a change . |
| 13 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 14 | It 's only lent to me for a week |
| 15 | Let's just tell you what you look like , you came to me for a job you would n't get it . |
| 16 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 17 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 18 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 19 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 20 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 21 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 22 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 23 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 24 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 25 | I would like to talk to you for a minute or two . ‘ |
| 26 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 27 | It did not occur to her for a moment that she might not be right . |
| 28 | In the same way , therefore , as they had turned to primitives for finding the opposite of capitalist relations of production , they turned to them for a form of family which was the opposite of the capitalist family . |
| 29 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 30 | Should we look to it for a pool of inventive talent that actively embodied novelty in its products , and thereby provided pressure for technical change among its customers ; or rather , for provision of engineering skills that responded passively to the demands made upon it by the inventiveness of its clients consumer industries and civil engineers ? |