Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , Ellen , before you leave this house , I 'll make you promise to arrange a meeting for me with Catherine . |
| 2 | FATHER 'S LOVE Lucy 's disability helped convince Mr Stringer that he should strive to provide a home for the mentally handi-capped which he would be happy to see his own daughter live in . |
| 3 | Sometimes we do not even need to provide a substitute for a word or phrase which has already been said . |
| 4 | Request : that eternal campaigner for true justice was asked if he would consider writing a foreword for a book titled ‘ An Eye For An Eye , A Tooth For A Tooth ’ . |
| 5 | I meant — would you consider developing a program for my company ? |
| 6 | But if you are working from a consultancy or from an office situated at some distance from the manufacturing units you will need to organise a system for sending a product out and checking that it has gone . |
| 7 | Although frames can be re-used with replacement wires , one patient may need to keep a frame for months . |
| 8 | ‘ To put it bluntly , we wondered whether you 'd consider taking a sabbatical for six months or so from your backroom job to liaise direct with Carlisle Flint ? |
| 9 | We shall need to settle a time for the service — the sooner the better . |
| 10 | You will need to get a receipt for the materials if you do the work yourself or the bill from the contractor if you have the work done for you . |
| 11 | This programme will seek to develop a framework for economic modelling within which links between the decisions of individual agents ( firms , households , unions ) and the behaviour of the economy at an aggregate level are more clearly established than is usually the case . |
| 12 | ‘ So you would n't consider marrying a man for his money , then ? |
| 13 | They did not need to have a row for Barry to feel constantly undermined by Helen 's attitudes , spoken and unspoken . |
| 14 | ‘ But a body would need to have a car for that kind of caper . |
| 15 | Yet if we are going to approach language as isolated artificially constructed sentences , even if only occasionally and for limited purposes , we do need to make a case for this , and not just do it because that is the tradition : in the mother tongue classroom , for the foreign language learner , or in linguistics . |
| 16 | do you want to set a date for another meeting just now or do you want to get in touch later George ? |
| 17 | Certainly there will be no ground-plan in reality to which the writer can refer to discover a basis for organising the text . |
| 18 | The literature on electronic publishing does not appear to provide a framework for studying the subject . |
| 19 | I mean h he under he says this is , you know a very nice house and he would n't normally expect to get a room for twenty five pounds in a house of that character . |
| 20 | Alternatively O may choose to bring a claim for conversion against X or Y. Where O brings his claim against Z , Z will naturally wish to claim against Y who sold to him . |
| 21 | There is no final dividend and Young said it did not expect to make a payment for 1992 . |
| 22 | What , what we need to do we 've got a handout for you on this so you can spend more time looking at yourself , or what you need to do is you need to compare your scores against those rather than just take the highest one . |
| 23 | Instead of converting the programs from one machine code to another , we could envisage writing a program for the new computer to simulate the old computer at the instruction level . |
| 24 | It does not claim to explore a methodology for assessing the more difficult areas of non-decisions and the analysis of constraint which is suggested in Marxist approaches to the topic . |
| 25 | Lesley rummaged in the depths of her calf handbag for a matching key-case as they crossed at the lights , and flicked out the smallest of the keys on the bunch it contained ‘ You wo n't mind waiting a minute for me ? |
| 26 | A number of women have told me they voted for him because they felt sorry for him , because he was a trier , a bit of an underdog , because he was a hubby figure , the man they would most like to buy a pullover for , a man who knows where his slippers are . |
| 27 | Ah Would you like to record a song for posterity Lynda ? |
| 28 | ‘ Would you like to leave a message for them ? ’ |
| 29 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 30 | You tend to sort of I 'd like to book a table for two |