Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 2 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 3 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 4 | to sit down for five minutes after the tea , no the other one was , is that the biggest one ? , thanks , there you are |
| 5 | So I 've got time to sit down for five minutes before we go out ai n't I ? |
| 6 | I need to sit down for three minutes or , me back 'll snap in two . |
| 7 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 8 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 9 | Gooch , manager Keith Fletcher and England chairman Ted Dexter all praised the Whittingdale sponsorship which has allowed them to gather together for two days in each of the last six weeks . |
| 10 | The new guidelines will tell the police to give no more than two cautions , except in rare circumstances , and to caution only for minor offences . |
| 11 | And through them all does there not run a consistency of effort to strengthen the ties of monastic life , to bring back those in error , to wait patiently for better times , while occupying his time with theological work , with preaching and counselling the erring , for whom he displays an affectionate concern — even for the king . |
| 12 | The precise circumstances of the birth of the Universe , perhaps some 15 billion years ago , are still a mystery — and are likely to remain so for many years . |
| 13 | With their creation , the institutional pattern is settled and seems likely to remain so for some years to come . |
| 14 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 15 | You set the a great egg race type topic to work on for three weeks . |
| 16 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 17 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 18 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 19 | Although particulate traps can be made to work effectively for short periods under favourable conditions there is some way to go before they are reliable enough for the rough and tumble of ordinary operating conditions . |
| 20 | Balbinder was always pleased to come along for these sessions , to play with my children 's toys and run in the garden . |
| 21 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 22 | A media education programme therefore presupposes that a group of people will continue to work together for several years . |
| 23 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 24 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 25 | Cos they were playing Newtons Thursday night and she said they 'll have to write home for nine men so Newtons int gon na stand a chance . |
| 26 | ‘ If the church is n't going to stand up for good values , who is ? ’ |
| 27 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 28 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 29 | He says the county council has been trying to find out for 6 years about the planning of the east-west route because we were very worried about the effect it would have on Oxford and the countryside around Oxford . |
| 30 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |