Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [to-vb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How would you like to have to ask for a penny to buy a stamp if you wanted to write a letter ? ’ she would ask . |
| 2 | Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis would n't hear of it . |
| 3 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 4 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 5 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 6 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 7 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 8 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |