Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 2 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 3 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 4 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 5 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 6 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 7 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 8 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 9 | You have to sit down for a minute — |
| 10 | I needed to sit down for a minute . |
| 11 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 12 | It may also be useful in case the patient becomes unexpectedly tired , and needs to sit down for a moment . |
| 13 | If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand . |
| 14 | ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’ |
| 15 | She did not have to wait long for a train . |
| 16 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 17 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 18 | Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim . |
| 19 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
| 20 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 21 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 22 | One of my other SCOTTISH OFFICE contacts has asked me to go in for a sandwich lunch on Wednesday ( 25th ) , which is kind . |
| 23 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 24 | Information derived from the national health service internal market on general practitioner and patient preferences and on comparative costs will help the service to plan sensibly for the future , in London as elsewhere . |
| 25 | Nicky Cruz and his gang , the Mau Maus , decide to go along for the ride … . |
| 26 | Spike , of course , kept saying " He wants us to go down for a drink . " |
| 27 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 28 | Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it may be prudent to provide expressly for the payment of rent where , for example , the property remains empty while the tenant is seeking to assign his lease . |
| 30 | The stylistic aplomb of the article may have us accepting the analogous links made between cockfighting and the totality of Balinese society without realising that these links are too fragmentary and partial to stand properly for the whole . |