Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they will go by what you want from it for the o , over the next few years you know ? |
| 2 | ‘ Both of youse , just hold onto yourselves for a second . |
| 3 | Listen to me for a moment . ’ |
| 4 | " Senga , listen to me for a moment . |
| 5 | ‘ Madam , listen to me for a moment . |
| 6 | Now calm down , and listen to me for a minute . |
| 7 | ‘ No , Nicolo , you listen to me for a change . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Johnson found little support among them for the reformist policies of the government of the day . |
| 10 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 11 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 12 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 13 | We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour . |
| 14 | It is quite usual to seek translation in tables of regnal years such as those printed in the more common reference books without , perhaps , recognising the historical significance of the system or the traps which lie within it for the unwary . |
| 15 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 16 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 17 | We both look at it for a bit . |
| 18 | I look at it for a moment , tracing out my journey from Westminster . |
| 19 | Just stand by me for a little bit longer . |
| 20 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 21 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 22 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 23 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 24 | Aye have a look , while you 're doing that I 'll have a look at what bits and pieces see if I talk to you for a minute about these |
| 25 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 26 | So dress like us for an hour or so : come close , come closer : brush up against us if that 's what you want . |
| 27 | I think what it is is that I feel if I go into something for the sake of going into it to earn money I shall be absolutely bored with me life . |
| 28 | Theo was about to travel from The Hague to Etten , en route for a new post in Paris , and Vincent pressed him to ‘ leave the train ’ on the second leg of his journey and stay with him for a day or two . |
| 29 | I do n't mean all night , I know you ca n't , but stay with me for the evening . " |
| 30 | All we ask of you in return is to buy at least one book from each of the Reviews and stay with us for a minimum of six issues . |