Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt only sorry for him and sure that , if they could stay alone together for a while , Fiver would come round to an easier state of mind . |
| 2 | ‘ Can you hang on here for a few moments ? ’ |
| 3 | Can you wait long enough for the organism to perform its duties ? |
| 4 | If Somerset should opt once more for a batsman , my instinct tells me the favourite would be Richie Richardson . |
| 5 | They did n't wait any longer for the bus . |
| 6 | ‘ We can wait out here for a bit , ca n't we ? ’ he asked . |
| 7 | No pressure group can wait around forever for a change of government that may never come . |
| 8 | So many days of late , although dry , have been dull and overcast , but as someone said to me , you ca n't wait too long for a good thing , so here 's hoping . |
| 9 | A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't think a man could feel so deeply for a woman these days ? ’ |
| 11 | If you would like to know more about the people and processes that keep water running for you 24 hours a day , why not send off now for the comprehensive free brochure below . |
| 12 | We can do far more for the author . ’ |
| 13 | He has already stopped me from saving up for a large format SLR camera ; my trusty 35-mm model will do well enough for the closeups of butterflies and flowers that interest me . |
| 14 | That would do quite nicely for a start . |
| 15 | ‘ If he is n't , he can swear pretty well for a dead person , ’ said Sacco , sagging to the floor . |
| 16 | But we 'll watch very carefully for the three Luxembourgs at the end of the week , just in case he 's planning a fresh revolt on the stage . ’ |
| 17 | This will do very well for the sort of story that is a combination of the novel of humour ( a story of cumulative comic events ) and the blueprint detective story . |
| 18 | ‘ This will do very well for the moment , ’ he murmured , nibbling her ear , his hands finding at last the soft flesh between her thighs . |
| 19 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |
| 20 | Your sister should look somewhere else for the answer , then maybe she 'll begin to sort things out . |
| 21 | This explanation does not work so well for the majority of the texts of Scaevola , which are not excerpts from a dogmatic tract in which the jurist was discussing the disparate regimes of legacy and trust , but opinions given in practical cases . |
| 22 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 23 | Once this had been achieved they could campaign more openly for a united Ireland on the basis of uniting Catholic and Protestant workers , small farmers and the lower rungs of the business community for an independent , democratic , united and self-sufficient Irish Republic . |
| 24 | Otherwise we could search up there for a year and we would n't find her . |
| 25 | Cheshire notes that even so a number of alternating items and structures did not occur frequently enough for a quantitative analysis , and some of the frequencies for the variables which were analysed are very low . |
| 26 | I tell you what I 'm not happy with that lettuce , I shall look round again for an iceberg |
| 27 | Within the overall pattern we must look very carefully for the local variations , realize the implications of both soil and climate , and plan our holding to make the most of the resources . |
| 28 | At one point , George Duke said to me , ‘ Why do n't you stay up here for a minute — I want you to play . ’ |
| 29 | You can stay up late for a few nights to finish that urgent report without getting irritable or asking too much of the people you live with . |
| 30 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |