Example sentences of "for [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you decide at the end of the day the thing to do is to pick up this kid and run like hell for somewhere you can gain , wave for help , or put him in the car and drive like mad to the hospital , then you might just do that , even though it breaks all the golden rules of first aid |
| 2 | All fords of the Esk , including Kirkandrews , were guarded on the English side by Graham peel-towers ; and though these would not be strong enough to hold up three thousand from crossing for long they could send warning back to the English authorities if so inclined . |
| 3 | well that 's what I say in all tablets and that if you take 'em for long you 'll become addictive to them |
| 4 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 5 | This particular study for so he could listen to it . |
| 6 | Plus this pension so you 'd be , you 'd have your house paid for so you 'd get a nice |
| 7 | Cos it 's , the you 're supposed to that 's what it 's for so you can check all your spellings . |
| 8 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
| 9 | ‘ For tonight I will put a chair by her door , out in the passage where she will bump into it . |
| 10 | I think that for once we need feel no qualms in taking Diodorus as a faithful epitomizer of what must have been a compact and careful section of Posidonius on the slave war in Sicily . |
| 11 | You know what I think about nuns , but for once they might do something useful . " |
| 12 | Let us hope that for once he will stand up and be counted and go down fighting — as go down he assuredly will . |
| 13 | And I 'm angry that I 'm not doing anything , ’ so I thought maybe for once I could use my name — my fame — in a constructive way and maybe make it heard above that dreadful silence . |
| 14 | Just for once I 'd like to do what I choose . ’ |
| 15 | Just for once I 'd like to be able to do something properly , but I never will . |
| 16 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 17 | Coming up in a little while we 'll be talking greyhounds , but for now we 'll go back to football and deal with the local classified results with all the local leagues . |
| 18 | At Collington Chapel Lane is closed until Friday cos they 're putting a new sewer in there and traffic 's being diverted there along Main Street and at Totton there 's roadworks on Nottingham Road at the junction with Attenborough Lane delays likely there especially at busy times that 'll do us for now we 'll update the traffic for you again in half an hours time . |
| 19 | That 'll do us for now we 'll update the traffic again for you in half an hour 's time radio Nottingham F M one O three point eight and ninety five point five Nottinghamshire 's favourite station with the weather forecast for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 20 | No doubt experiments that unambiguously answer Baker 's fundamental criticism will be performed , in which pigeons are taken to release sites which are clearly unfamiliar ; but for now we must suspend judgement . |
| 21 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 22 | For now we can proceed in terms of dealing with a fundamental social order which can be usefully described as disorganized capitalism . |
| 23 | For now we will restrict ourselves to data on decision making and publication times . |
| 24 | For now they 'll carry on living at Stoke Mandeville and Adis will continue with his treatment … taking each day as it comes |
| 25 | ‘ Later we can calm her , but for now she will continue like this until she grows tired . |
| 26 | But for now it would have to do . |
| 27 | But for now I 'll go along with you . |
| 28 | For now I 'll leave this in your hands . |
| 29 | For now I would like to describe two lesser known parasites under the letter E that fishkeepers should be aware of : |
| 30 | But for today we shall go straight through , just to warm up . |