Example sentences of "and [vb infin] for a " 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 | The problem is no less with open-ended exercises and unstructured enquiry projects in humanities work , where the teachers need to anticipate and prepare for a wide variety of student response and reaction . |
| 5 | Aggressive criticisms of assembly-line education such as this from the 1930s should cause us to stop and think for a moment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 8 | I like doing jobs where I can get down and concentrate for a period |
| 9 | You could almost stand and wait for a horse to deliver . |
| 10 | Numbers on the train were greatly reduced at Georgemas where those going to Wick had to dismount and wait for a connecting Sprinter . |
| 11 | You have to be sure the bird is very hungry , and if it 's not you have to sit down and wait for a long , long time . |
| 12 | His constitution was now in place , his political position at home was very strong , but he was almost seventy years of age and could hardly afford to sit back and wait for a long-term transformation to solve Algeria 's problems . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If I did n't move someone would come and feel for a pulse and , finding one , finish me off . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This booklet tells you what you need to know and do for a healthy pregnancy , and the delivery of a healthy baby . |
| 18 | The gauntlet was down , the opportunity to talk to arrange a forum , to come together , land owners , local authorities , the hunt 's people , er the interested parties , to come together and look for a decent way of hunting and that way is probably drag hunting and we 're giving you a golden opportunity to start that route . |
| 19 | She bounced to the mirror to powder and tweak for a moment , catching Conroy 's eye and giving him a wink . |
| 20 | But what upset her particularly was the last sentence : ‘ I should go and work for a week in one of my shops but — though I could even sleep on the factory floor — I ca n't understand people working in shops . ’ |
| 21 | I mean unless you actually do go and work for a specifically religious charity , |
| 22 | You can actually go and work for a living . |
| 23 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 24 | Although we can not control some of the key factors which determine our success , neither can we sit by and hope for a turn of fortune . |
| 25 | And lead him out to the Waiting Room where he 's allowed to linger and holler for a while before we ferry him back to the night . |
| 26 | Thanks to just three votes , Mr Major could sit back and relax for a few moments . |
| 27 | Three girls rushed up to help and call for an ambulance . |
| 28 | ‘ I decided I 'd just walk on and yap for a bit . |
| 29 | Maybe you 'll have to wait up and pay for a cab to bring them home . |
| 30 | They still have to make and pay for a boiler so this particular age of Victorian Steam may have to wait until the next century before it makes a comeback . |