Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 2 | Over the past few years , they have continued to perform successfully for this club even though they did n't know whether they would end up having their wages paid . |
| 3 | You should be feeling slimmer this morning , and it should encourage you to carry on for another day . |
| 4 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 5 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |
| 6 | Are you coming to sit down for this meal ? |
| 7 | When the band is removed from the machine there will be two ends of yarn to sew in for each buttonhole . |
| 8 | ‘ The real singer of that name was indisposed , and was likely to remain so for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ Cider is a good area at the moment , ’ says co-author Philip Shaw , ‘ and is likely to remain so for some time . |
| 10 | It concluded that the Simonian concept of state medicine was far in advance of public opinion and was likely to remain so for some time to come . |
| 11 | I voted for this government because they said they were n't going to go in for that sort of rubbish . |
| 12 | Yes , Americans , erm I have the impression , they 're being rather slow to go in for this sort of Federal legislation . |
| 13 | New York drug dealers seem to go in for sophisticated marketing ploys . |
| 14 | It is unusual to provide expressly for this contingency and the lease is probably best left silent on this point . |
| 15 | Bloke supposed to come in for new business pitch will have got there by now . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , that 's the first thing we have to make him see , then we need to get him to come in for regular counselling sessions . ’ |
| 17 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 18 | In the winter of 1940–41 a number of public figures contacted by the left-of-centre owner of Picture Post , Edward Hulton , agreed to work together for greater efficiency , vigour and democracy in the prosecution of the war . |
| 19 | If the answer is yes , ask your Guider to write off for more information . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 21 | he 's waiting to come up for another load . |
| 22 | They may be good business for surveyors , but they are a waste of money for those buyers who are unsuccessful or who have to pull out for one reason or another . |
| 23 | He said as he stepped on the ‘ plane : ‘ I would love to come back for another season at Portadown — but no-one has said anything to me . |
| 24 | We then have to work out for each molecule which of the Cartesian axes corresponds with which inertial axis , as this depends on the details of the mass-distribution . |
| 25 | In most industrial countries these were recruited from marginal and footloose men , ready to work hard for good pay in bad conditions and to drink or gamble away their pay equally hard , with little thought for the future . |
| 26 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 27 | Edward continued to stand there for another minute or two . |
| 28 | As we start afresh to build a new church , we have a heaven sent opportunity to try again for this possibility of godly unity which , if we let it , will be so powerful in persuading the world of the divinity of Jesus . |
| 29 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 30 | The conversation is about how to respond to an invitation to " step outside " at a party : the gist of B's turn is that if someone were to ask her to go outside for " fresh air " at a party , she would not want to go outside for fresh air , and would not go . |