Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down the street opposite , Spring Avenue , and towards the car park , where I head for a silver Ford Granada , so that I can pause and hide a mo , to see how the pursuit is going . |
| 2 | I 've got a list of phone numbers , it seems like fifty , of different people who have been invoked — the doctor , the home help , district nurse , chiropodist , social worker , hospital doctor , Age Concern , the Red Cross , the old people 's home where she went for a break and dozens more , I hardly know who they are . |
| 3 | The second daughter , Katarina ( Tinka ) , also graduated from the College , where she taught for a time . |
| 4 | Dorothy , the eldest , went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years . |
| 5 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 6 | where you went for a walk , down , went to the shops |
| 7 | Where you go for a pound . |
| 8 | Yes , you could do that , so , so y you go for erm a very high rate of taxation or you go for a lower rate of taxation which is |
| 9 | Or you coming for a ride ? |
| 10 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 11 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 12 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 13 | Some older people are keen to live in sheltered accommodation where they hope for a combination of independence and security . |
| 14 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 15 | Allow him or her to rest for a while to ‘ come round ’ in their own time . |
| 16 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 17 | A member of the Eugenics Education Society , the Clerical and Medical Committee of the BMA — where he campaigned for a stronger moral lead from the profession — and the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease , he moved freely between religious , political and scientific spheres . |
| 18 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Liverpool 's Alder Hey Hospital where he stayed for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 19 | Mr Bolona is equally welcome in financial circles in North America , where he worked for a time as a consultant on Latin American debt . |
| 20 | He dropped the letter on to his desk where it fluttered for a moment , an innocent reminder of the arrangement made in that grey stone house in Ghent . |
| 21 | Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza . |
| 22 | First , I believe that I speak for a number of my hon. Friends when I say that we want the Bill to reach the statute book , come what may , in view of the approaching general election , and I hope that it will be given a fair wind . |
| 23 | It 's also the fact that I know for a fact , I know for a fact that she 's very frightened of his temper when it happens . |
| 24 | He then said that he now had confirmation from the police and that I qualified for a transfer and would receive an offer for Govan ( where my dad is ) within a week . |
| 25 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 26 | Realizing what they represented , he added quickly , ‘ Not that I think for a moment that you … though , of course , ’ he floundered ever deeper , ‘ naturally , a man like , you , presentable and so forth , you probably have several … ’ |
| 27 | I bought all that I needed for a laboratory , and sent everything to Scotland . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |