Example sentences of "and [vb infin] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 2 | He was sorry he 'd forgotten to pay Betty any money last year , but could he come and stay for a while and pay her then ? |
| 3 | His family used to come and stay for a week every year in a cottage across the dale and Martin would come and visit me on a regular basis . |
| 4 | In Chapman 's view , the foundation of Aston Villa 's long history of success was their ability to plan ahead and prepare for the departure of key players . |
| 5 | The two sides were a world apart and while Northern hope for successive victories in their final two games for survival , Wigan can relax and prepare for the Silk Cut Cup final at Wembley on May 2 against Castleford . |
| 6 | Aggressive criticisms of assembly-line education such as this from the 1930s should cause us to stop and think for a moment . |
| 7 | ‘ Lighting can try and compensate for the lack of colour by creating certain moods . |
| 8 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 9 | I like doing jobs where I can get down and concentrate for a period |
| 10 | Mr. Browne says that he is standing as constituency candidate , free to speak and act for the area and with the strength to resist party orders that are against the interests of grass roots people . |
| 11 | You could almost stand and wait for a horse to deliver . |
| 12 | We can not stand by and wait for the equivalent of the Apple Macintosh to create a second empowerment of our students . |
| 13 | ‘ The fact is you do n't sit back and wait for the UFF or IRA to hit their victims — you go after them . |
| 14 | Significantly , the home referees in south Africa and Sandy MacNeill and David Bishop , the two test referees , were prepared to wait and wait for the ball to emerge from rucks and mauls . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ he thought , ‘ I 'll just have to sit and wait for the mist to clear . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Just let their targets sit back and wait for the bullet , eh ? ’ |
| 17 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 18 | Then , before she could decide whether to retreat and wait for the Empress to leave , a man murmured softly . |
| 19 | fra , ma frame of mind , you got to demand and wait for the answer , even though it might take a minute for the to say erm , erm , oh we use erm , you know , we 've got a , a , a local van that comes and se , like , you know . |
| 20 | Half past eight comes and it is time to stand outside and wait for the bus . |
| 21 | We had been advised that if we laid on a couple of bottles of champagne he might stay and chat for a while after the show . |
| 22 | I knew it would be wiser to settle down and chat for a while , and drop my question casually into the conversation , but I could n't wait . |
| 23 | If I did n't move someone would come and feel for a pulse and , finding one , finish me off . |
| 24 | Each year they asked all the people to do little sketches , and as my sister and I spoke French , we thought it might be quite fun to do a kind of singing and dancing cabaret act — it was quite risqué at the time — I was fourteen — and in fact we were spotted by a talent scout who wanted us to come up and audition for a show in a London night club . |
| 25 | She also went up on to the stage afterwards to meet the singers , and endeared herself to them all when one of the chorus asked , ‘ Why do n't you come and audition for the company ? ’ |
| 26 | Whenever they let a letter pass , it is only to encourage and watch for the answer . |
| 27 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 28 | If collective bargaining of this kind is to continue and improve for the benefit of both , it is essential that employees ' organisation should be fully representative . |
| 29 | After two more appearances , during which you are inconveniently looking the wrong way , you decide to go and look for the ghost . |
| 30 | Can I have my ring back and then Christopher can go and look for the ring that he had on his head , he had a wooden one on his head , do you remember ? |