Example sentences of "[to-vb] for a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | But I do n't think there 'll be any to spare for a day or two . |
2 | on the other hand , a school with a high rate of staff turnover can not usually afford to wait for a consensus and readiness that may never come ; and a staff hand-picked in a new school , or for a new school situation such as amalgamation or unstreaming , is usually in a mood for bigger adventures . |
3 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
4 | It may be necessary to wait for a place or take a place somewhere else ( either permanently or temporarily ) . |
5 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
6 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
7 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
8 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
9 | She reached into the Mini and lifted out her bag and began to rummage for a pen and paper . |
10 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
11 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
12 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
13 | In the Paris of the 19th century , it was a pleasure to go for a stroll and to be delighted by the public buildings . |
14 | She suspected that she was pregnant when she began seeing Alan , but this was only confirmed when she had to go for a check-up because Alan had a urinal infection . |
15 | How come the board have allowed Cuntona to go for a sing and a prayer ? |
16 | Sometimes she even manages to go for a drink or meal with friends . |
17 | You 've got to go for a ball that 's on the table . |
18 | You know cos the woman I was with wanted to go for a swim and I said no you ca n't this guy , so I went up to him , I said what , what on earth are you fishing for ? |
19 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
20 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
21 | I 'm not that way inclined , I like to go for a walk and have the fresh air on me and everything . |
22 | The facts are : Lady Eleanor kept to herself , put on her cloak to go for a walk and , in the half-light , slipped on the staircase at Godstowe , fell and broke her neck . ’ |
23 | My kids want to go for a visit and my daughter wants a picture of our home … |
24 | It is more likely the Goblin will be smashed apart — which although sad is considered a good way to go for a Goblin and infinitely better than being eaten by a peckish troll . |
25 | Oh yes , at that particular time , I will tell you that once again er , that was er I was supposed to go for an interview and this was er for the er declaration of intent of , wh which was er supposed to er supposed to be given every year to both the Lothian Regional Council and the District . |
26 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
27 | Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels . |
28 | A constable has a right to search for a weapon if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the suspect might present a danger to himself or others , for example because he was acting violently or was drunk or suicidal . |
29 | So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random . |
30 | My first memory is of falling off a rather high bed at the age of three years on the evening that my parents had moved into a house near the top of Hampstead Heath , and of my Father going off on his bicycle to search for a doctor as I had cut my head . |