Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Hercule died , it was suggested that Isabelle should stay on for a while — assist with the children . |
| 2 | then he 'll button down for a bit |
| 3 | ‘ All you have to do is hang in for a couple of days , ’ she told herself . |
| 4 | Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether . |
| 5 | When he came back shortly last year he was fast enough to get back to Ruel Fox and let Fox fall over for a penalty . |
| 6 | well let it dry off for a minute , well they must have a card , good job I thought about that I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name |
| 7 | Yeah , I 'd probably fuck off for a year and do my own thing and come back and maybe take take , maybe start my own business . |
| 8 | And I suspect that if we offered them counselling from cater good catering advice on how to maximise their market return they 'll do it because I would n't hang about for a meal if I knew that they would n't give you a meal in fifteen minutes , I 'd go and eat somewhere else . |
| 9 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 10 | ‘ And to keep that feeling together I will try and make arrangements that we can all team up for a leisure day . ’ |
| 11 | But give him his due , he does not give up for a scratch or two , and not even a dagger could hold him off for ever . ’ |
| 12 | AT LONG last we have a newspaper that will speak up for a referendum on Maastricht . |
| 13 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 14 | And they 'd knock off for a bit of dinner , come back , and do the second milking . |
| 15 | He watched the cashier ring through for a clearance and had been surprised when it was accepted . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't mind waiting , ’ she told him politely and pleasantly , though she could n't resist adding , ‘ Rosemary and I are friends ; I have n't seen her for ages , so I thought I 'd ring up for a chat . ’ |
| 17 | He said he would ask Sir David Attenborough to help her , which he did by checking out her agent and saying he would look out for a film part for her . ’ |
| 18 | I was very tired but I knew that I must look out for a trap . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall look out for a move . ’ |
| 20 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 21 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 22 | But experience can often make up for a yard or two of pace . |
| 23 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 24 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 25 | And er so er er I said to my friend , like me pals I said , Well look we we have n't been in the Army a year , so we 've got to be in two more years before it comes our turn our turn to be demobilized , so we just might as well sign up for a couple year , get two months leave and twenty quid , because we shall do that if we do n't . |
| 26 | You could sign up for a series of courses , which you could take at your own pace . |
| 27 | Quite how to choose your destination is not clear : You might set out for a holiday in Virgo and end up in the Crab Nebula . |
| 28 | Mona , a Palestinian born in Kuwait , said : ‘ Oh yes , he would often drop by for a cup of tea or coffee and a chat . ’ |
| 29 | The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ . |
| 30 | The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ . |