Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 2 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 3 | And I want to work with you for a new Kenya . ’ |
| 4 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 5 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 6 | Just to talk to him for a few minutes … |
| 7 | And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen . |
| 8 | But please , I just want to talk to you for a little while . |
| 9 | I would like to talk to you for a minute or two . ‘ |
| 10 | ‘ My — my English is not too good , you understand , but I would like to be able to talk to you for a while . ’ |
| 11 | She 's going to look after them for a little while |
| 12 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 14 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 15 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 16 | Call the dog to you , and encourage it to walk with you for a distance before repeating the process . |
| 17 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 18 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 19 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 20 | Seventeenth August — visited No. 4 Commando ( French Troop ) and decided to remain with them for a few days , due mainly to their hospitality and the change of scene . |
| 21 | Paul Young shared his taxi with Nigel Dempsey and Christopher MacPherson but when they arrived in Hemlington , Middlesbrough , Mr Young was invited to go with them for a drink . |
| 22 | A daughter may start by doing the shopping or going to sit with them for a few hours . |
| 23 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
| 24 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 25 | But it is also well known that the so-called expert witness in court may be a hired gun , willing to testify to anything for a fee , or a crackpot whose unsupportable ideas are masked by an advanced degree — often from a respectable university . |
| 26 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 27 | But Protestant orthodoxy in the generations after the Reformation had inclined to treat the Bible in a rather hardened and absolute fashion , and to search in it for a wider range of information than the Reformers were looking for . |
| 28 | Once a chick bred in captivity can fly — at the age of eight weeks or so — it can be taken from its parents and released to hunt for itself for a month . |
| 29 | I told him I had learnt how to fight against him for a start . |
| 30 | But I do n't think people , some people like you to chat with them for a long time , other people they just like you to serve the , so they can go . |