Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Princesse Mathilde came to see them for a weekend . |
| 2 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 3 | Then , when they came in , he came up to see me for a bit . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have to see someone for a minute . |
| 5 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 6 | Much work was needed to bring them up to scratch and the small band worked hard to ready everything for an opening to the public in June . |
| 7 | Some connection having been made in his mind , he began to rebuke her for a belief in the reality of Noah 's Ark , which he referred to sarcastically as the Myth of the Deluge . |
| 8 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 9 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 10 | And I would not for the world meddle with her plans , though I am proud that she has consented on the way to visit me for a while . |
| 11 | Until you know that a certain person is going to be a good language helper , it is best to engage him/her for a day or a week at a time . |
| 12 | The staff would n't arrive to set them for a while yet . |
| 13 | The name seemed to halt him for a moment , but when his hands were again moving over her , the scream she let out crying , ‘ Mother ! |
| 14 | There were enough provisions here to feed her for a week — and in far more luxury than she would have dreamt of buying for herself . |
| 15 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 16 | Bonanza Boy , one of my old favourites , has been a remarkable horse over the years and I am a touch sad in having to desert him for a horse I consider to have a better chance . |
| 17 | Wish she 'd come and tell me how to set ours for a film that 's on about |
| 18 | Two months later this tram-driver stopped me : ‘ I want to see you for a minute . |
| 19 | But I need to see you for a moment . |
| 20 | For example , although we do not have in English the grammaticalization of the levels of respect that exist in Javanese , we do have means of expressing degrees of respect , largely by choices in the use of expressions : thus ( 31 ) would generally be a more polite request than ( 30 ) : ( 30 ) I want to see you for a moment ( 31 ) I wondered if I could possibly see you for a moment So by taking at first just the grammaticalized or encoded features of context in the world 's languages , we would have both something like a " discovery procedure " for relevant functions of language , and a constraint on the relatively vacuous theorizing that often attends speculation about the " functions of speech " . |
| 21 | In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought it would be best if Mr Challow were to help you for a bit , Miss Broome , ’ said Mervyn , ‘ while he 's getting settled down , that is . ’ |
| 23 | It was a real pleasure to win something for a change but unfortunately I do n't like knitting . |
| 24 | We wo n't be able to afford one for a couple of years yet . |
| 25 | ‘ He wanted to swop her for a guarantee that he would not be arrested ’ |
| 26 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 27 | But she nipped back down to nick 'em For a knees-up in High Wycombe , For an evening quite near Chevening And a dawn at Kilmacolm . |
| 28 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |
| 29 | But there is little likelihood of them giving home advantage to Garvey who have gone 32 games without defeat in the competition and need to win it for a record sixth time on the trot to reach Europe next year . |
| 30 | Sport , and with the new football season just over a month old , Oxford United Football Club probably feels they 've had enough problems to last them for a lifetime . |