Example sentences of "for a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked like somewhere waiting for a film to happen , Jasper thought , like a Western on television where two gunmen will come out of the badlands and hold up the mailtrain on the Santa Fe railroad . |
| 2 | It is very rare for a farmer to allow us access to his fields once he has seeded them . |
| 3 | With inflation the cost of stocking a small farm , quite apart from the value of the land itself , is so high that the tax imposition will make it virtually impossible for a farmer to pass on a flourishing farm to his son . |
| 4 | Enough seeds for a farmer to replant his crops costs £8.50 . |
| 5 | So Rubberneck crouched : he lay on the floor , and the window opened just a trifle , two , three inches , but enough , for his darts , for a dream to sail out . |
| 6 | Further mishandling by CI let Moorehead in for a try to put Banbridge out of sight . |
| 7 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 8 | Of course , it was perfectly possible for a nurse to undertake a particular task for all clients and not be competent , with possibly disastrous consequences . |
| 9 | ll its staff are well trained and fractures are very difficult for a nurse to diagnose . |
| 10 | You might argue that the only way for a nurse to learn how to dress a wound or administer an injection is by observing and practising the skill until she is competent . |
| 11 | What a conquest you have made , McAllister , and think what a triumph it would be for a maid-of-all-work to become a curate 's wife . |
| 12 | As with waiting for a hedgehog to uncurl , prodding did n't help . |
| 13 | The father in one family , himself a compositor with both a son and daughter following his trade , was described as " a first-class workman , clever , thoughtful and well-read … he is in the Trade Union " and also attended Labour Party meetings ( indicating incidentally that it was not necessarily a sign of disaffection from the union for a comp to send his daughter to the trade ) . |
| 14 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 15 | Another distant roll of thunder added a bass note to the orchestrated shrillness of the tropical night , and Devraux lifted his head for a second to listen . |
| 16 | She stopped for a second to point something out to the Doctor . |
| 17 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |
| 18 | With the mother and father , whose knowledge of English was vestigial , he managed rather better , but longed for a rest from mental agility , for a bed to sleep away the exhaustion of his night and a day on the long Lines of Communication from England . |
| 19 | He was transferred after waiting a further month for a bed to become vacant . |
| 20 | After you 've swapped your pounds for punts , and you 're looking for a bed to rest your jet-lagged body try Isaac 's , a comfortable hotel in Frenchman 's Lane . |
| 21 | I do n't know how much turf they to put on this here for a pris for a prisoner to kick a ruddy football on . |
| 22 | In a 4,000 word decision , the Californian Court of Appeal ruled that in some instances the threat of homosexual rape is fearsome enough for a prisoner to seek justifiably to escape from jail — The Times . |
| 23 | Any takers for a satellite to spy for peace ? |
| 24 | Do n't wait for a muse to come take your hand . |
| 25 | By then , the team will have marched 10 miles a day for a fortnight to reach base camp and endured temperatures of -40C and galeforce winds — with only tents for shelter . |
| 26 | The South Sussex team was also more than compensated by the rock solidarity of a boy called Paul Hedley at back , and the dazzling Sherwood brothers , Randolph and Merlin , who 'd pulled out of high goal polo for a fortnight to piss it up with the Pony Club . |
| 27 | The Rector was put in charge for a fortnight to begin with , but when there was no improvement in Hamilton it was decided to investigate the possibility of appointing a proper substitute . |
| 28 | Seven of our Section were detached for a fortnight to make our creche , so each day after parade they would go off with a Corporal to hump sand , fill wheelbarrows with moss and look for things to add to the project . |
| 29 | Mrs Whitehouse was determined that something should be done , and arranged for a QC to visit the theatre and watch a performance . |
| 30 | The resulting larvae sit on the sand or climb up any grass present and wait for a mammal to pass by . |