Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
| 2 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |
| 3 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 4 | Still , I wondered how anyone could find sitting for an artist boring . |
| 5 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 6 | It introduces the thought that in his speech as well as in his writing , Johnson understood that the essence of art lies in the perfect marriage of form and content , therefore , Boswell may have reached for an accuracy beyond sycophancy . |
| 7 | If you think the time may come when you may have to care for an elderly or disabled person in your home , there are also grants available for adapting housing . |
| 8 | Exceptionally the statutes creating these bodies may omit to provide for an appeal in which case the decisions of the tribunals in question may be the subject of review by the High Court , and if the decisions reveal an error of law they may be quashed by what is known as an order of certiorari . |
| 9 | He saw the opportunity to play the peace card and the moderate rearmament card at the same time , fortified by the prospect that in times of trouble the public would prefer to vote for an established Government rather than a peculiarly unknown opposition . |
| 10 | And while no carrier would want to be bound by terms and conditions other than those on the receipt message he sent , no transferee would want to pay for an electronic bill whose terms and conditions are other than those he received . |
| 11 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 12 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 14 | as well as a development charge to the Board , is still paying less in the total cost of his house than he would have to pay for an existing house with vacant possession . |
| 15 | The cost of the engraving alone would have paid for an entire single-cone Style O guitar |
| 16 | Howie Armstrong , Scottish co-ordinator of the EPOCH campaign , End Physical Punishment of Children , said the organisation would continue to press for an end to all forms of corporal punishment against children . |
| 17 | Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions . |
| 18 | For example , infants of 8 months of age will continue to search for an object , such as a toy , which is repeatedly hidden behind the same cover . |
| 19 | There must be a point beyond which no set of built-in computer-like elements can suffice to account for an animal 's apparent grasp of its situation , particularly in the face of variable or unpredictable environmental contingencies . |
| 20 | From this you can then judge when you can risk sleeping for an hour or two and so be much fresher for the more likely feeding times . |