Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are clearly — even just for music — a variety of options , and the school must eventually come down for one pattern of timing rather than another . |
| 2 | Anyone wishing to join the Liss club and perhaps start training now for next year 's race should just turn up for training on Wednesday evenings ( 7 p.m. ) and Sunday mornings ( 9.30 a.m . ) . |
| 3 | To avoid boredom one activity should not go on for too long , so always have a variety of activities ready . |
| 4 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 5 | I could n't believe it when I first , first year of marriage and when I got pregnant , er , we 'd walk into her , well it 's her daughter 's erm sitting room , she 'd struggle up out of an arm chair and I 'd think oh gosh , I know she must n't get up for me , got the tummy out here , |
| 6 | I said to Dinda well there 's no reason why you should n't go out for a drink with him or |
| 7 | It 's a war , there is something to fight for ; you should n't stick up for Kylie , she should be fought at every turn . |
| 8 | Salespeople should therefore look out for such buying signals and respond accordingly . |
| 9 | Mr Rochester is always very popular with the ladies at these parties , so he may not come back for a week or so . ’ |
| 10 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 11 | When the blacksmith decides to make some new tongs for himself , he may just look around for suitable pieces of scrap which he will then fashion into the desired tools . |
| 12 | At times Ludens wondered whether this state of affairs might not go on for ever , whether he might not give up his job and become Marcus 's — what ? — friend , secretary , servant , dog . |
| 13 | While the church dominated governing body of King 's College , London , did not object to Lyell 's geology , it sacked the theologian F. D. Maurice for suggesting that the indescribable torture of the damned might not go on for ever . |
| 14 | I 'll just sit down for a moment . ’ |
| 15 | He 'll not come down for two week ! |
| 16 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 17 | Ron will be back tonight , so we 'll probably go out for a couple of pints . |
| 18 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 19 | I know that our children by enlarge er their vocabulary does n't extend to erm what er , polysyllabic words which which might really sum up for an adult what they 've been going through , how they 've enjoyed it but what is the terrible form we had last year in seventh year , was it seven G ? |
| 20 | I 've enjoyed it so much I might even come back for more on Monday . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's like a time bomb you carry round with you , ’ Arty said , ‘ and the alarm might n't go off for twenty-five years . ’ |
| 22 | Well anyway , I I 'll definitely go up for half a day a week you know . |
| 23 | Friends of hers who already have babies tend to speak frankly and moan openly , with a lengthy litany of ‘ nevers ’ : ‘ You 'll never go out for an impromptu evening … sleep through the night … read a book in the bath … go to the loo in peace again ! ’ |
| 24 | I keep the piece of paper in a tin next to my dad 's glasses — the ones he 'll never come back for — but I know I 'll never use it . |
| 25 | I bet she 'll bloody wait up for Susan to ring . |
| 26 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 27 | yeah , I 'd rather put down for acceptability of work pattern . |
| 28 | With four flights a day from Manchester to Paris you could literally fly out for lunch and be back in time for ‘ Match of the Day ’ . |
| 29 | The early morning was marvellous if you could only get up for it . |
| 30 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |