Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't really understand what he 's doing , but it 's OK to watch him for a bit . |
| 2 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 3 | Her mum says we 'd be welcome to rent it for a couple of weeks . |
| 4 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 5 | the word ‘ accent ’ is used elsewhere to refer to different varieties of pronunciation ( e.g. ‘ a foreign accent ’ ) ; it is confusing to use it for a quite different purpose — to a lesser extent we also have this problem with ‘ stress ’ , which can be used to refer to psychological tension . |
| 6 | She was too honest to deceive him and too prudent to exchange him for a lover whose interest would probably not last very long . |
| 7 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 8 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 9 | Clearly , if you or I should happen to chance on a second , battered and with a dozen pages adrift , we should be happy to buy it for a modest sum . |
| 10 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 11 | The school was having trouble with leaks in their stainless steel hydrotherapy pool which resulted in the children being unable to use it for a number of weeks . |
| 12 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 13 | But , if you can isolate the component , it might be possible to swap it for a new one at minimum cost . |
| 14 | ‘ Quite right , laddie , but I think handling should be enough to hold you for a while . |
| 15 | Unless you are guilty of gross misconduct , it will seldom be fair to dismiss you for a first breach of discipline . |
| 16 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 17 | Until you know that a certain person is going to be a good language helper , it is best to engage him/her for a day or a week at a time . |
| 18 | Neither scholar had , strictly , gone through the stages necessary to qualify him for a mevleviyet , but the former was closely connected with the Grand Vezir Rustem Pasa , the latter with Sehzade Selim , later Sultan Selim 11 . |
| 19 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |