Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started when a man working in the sorting office was suspended for refusing to stand in for a colleague who 'd gone sick . |
| 2 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 3 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 4 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 5 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 6 | ‘ He is going to stay here for a while . ’ |
| 7 | Are you going to stay here for a couple of days , where you 'll be safe ? |
| 8 | I 'm going to stay there for a bit while I look round for a place . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 10 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 11 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 12 | There was n't the faintest trace of pity in his face as he saw the defeated posture , just a glimmer of satisfaction that his own plans were starting to go well for a change . |
| 13 | A friend failing to turn up for a date may reawaken deep-seated fears of abandonment . |
| 14 | The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle . |
| 15 | The august meeting of the Herts and District Metal Detection Society , while not up to its usual high attendance , owing to many people managing to get away for a few weeks holiday , still managed to attract forty-five members . |
| 16 | They were preparing to check in for a flight to Tokyo . |
| 17 | Cars have been popular in the movies since Mack Sennett was wrecking them around 1914 in such shorts as Lizzies of the Field — not funny to some members of early audiences , who were trying to save up for a Ford Model T or ‘ tin Lizzy ’ . |