Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's stay here for a while . ’ |
| 2 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |
| 3 | As much as 85% of the materials should be on open access , and stock relegated to store should remain there for a trial period of five years before being returned to the main library , or transferred to a permanent back-up collection such as the British Library . |
| 4 | After Hercule died , it was suggested that Isabelle should stay on for a while — assist with the children . |
| 5 | ‘ I should stay there for a while , ’ said Elise , when she brought in a breakfast tray . |
| 6 | ‘ I must stay here for a while , ’ Edward went on . |
| 7 | I am minding the shop so we must stay downstairs for a while . ’ |
| 8 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 9 | I just certain , satisfy certain erm cattle requirements and carry on business in the sugar trade and of must done so for a period of time , I 'm looking at this , the third page in , top of the page , erm trade in office in London established without purpose erm now those the |
| 10 | Those 48 companies in the top 100 that provide balance sheets must do so for a reason . |
| 11 | The sides must battle again for a quarter-final place on December 16 , but the odds are now stacked against Howard Kendall 's men after the way they lost their grip on this fiercely-contested fourth-round tie . |
| 12 | I was very tired but I knew that I must look out for a trap . |
| 13 | ‘ If you art hit on the torso , from head to knees but excluding the arms , that is a hit and you must return here for a penalty of five minutes . |
| 14 | The outcome is expected to influence Scottish Homes in deciding whether Waverley or Eildon should go forward for a four-week postal ballot in June . |
| 15 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 16 | The counsel given was probably the best in the circumstances , which was that I should go abroad for a break . |
| 17 | ‘ What would you say if I told you I must go away for a week ? |
| 18 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |
| 19 | In order to defuse this rivalry , Dycarbas resolves that both sons should leave home for a time . |
| 20 | ‘ You should get away for a bit , ’ Helen continued . |
| 21 | He should legislate now for a referendum to be held once the negotiations at Maastricht are complete . |
| 22 | Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years . |
| 23 | then he 'll button down for a bit |
| 24 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll stay just for a while longer . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll stay here for a bit . |
| 27 | I 'll stay here for a while . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll stay here for a bit , Jamey , ’ he said to reassure this youngest child , for children get worried if you do n't speak . |
| 29 | But I 'll stay here for a bit longer . |
| 30 | Well I 'll wait here for a bit I mean you 'll queue at the others if I turn round . |