Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So while it was wrong for the IRA to let off bombs in Northern Ireland it was quite all right for the DGSE to let them off in New Zealand . |
| 2 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 3 | I 'm just going to put the video on for a moment Thank you . |
| 4 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 5 | You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably . |
| 6 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 7 | They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped . |
| 8 | He mumbled words and phrases from the song quietly enough for the noise to drown them until a man returned to his side and stopped . |
| 9 | ( d ) Do n't wave the cards about ; hold the card steadily in front of the class long enough for the students to grasp what situation you are trying to present . |
| 10 | But the scholarship was worth only £100 and , though his school plundered its scarce resources to add £20 , it was not enough for the boy to support himself at Cambridge . |
| 11 | Now all of that is sensible enough for the holiday-maker taking his or her annual two weeks in the sun , but like many packages , there are strings attached . |
| 12 | And only then , at long last , when almost everything was gone , did the terrible rain relent just enough for the ramparts to stop their melting . |
| 13 | Can you wait long enough for the organism to perform its duties ? |
| 14 | That a large and heterogeneous society like the United States has maintained just two parties for almost its entire history suggests that the job of aggregation has been performed admirably , but it must be remembered that in the United States these interests are really only aggregated once every four years , just long enough for the parties to select their presidential candidates and fight for their election . |
| 15 | 1 It must be large enough for the spider to build its web in . |
| 16 | Only for a moment did he pause and face the buffeting wind with an effort , and Paul recognised in that moment his own struggle with bales of wool before the same door . |
| 17 | In some fantastic way , he could see his mind like these barren screes — a frozen cascade of broken rock face lying on the more solid rock waiting only for an impulse to charge it into dangerous motion . |
| 18 | ‘ Only for the opportunity to slake your desire ? |
| 19 | Perhaps it is too much to hope that this concert finally dragged the Petersfield Musical Festival into the 20th century , but with a promised appearance by the acclaimed National Youth Jazz Orchestra next year , as well as The Dream of Gerontius , it remains only for the committee to do something about the slow start to the week for the festival to regain some of its former splendour . |
| 20 | The ball was worked out wide on the left to Mark Walton who hit in a point blank cross to the head of Steve Jenkins , only for the striker to direct his header against the post with a goal gaping . |
| 21 | The action moved to the Saints ' end where a cross from Kiwomya eluded Dozzell and Whitton but fell kindly for Guentchev only for the Bulgarian to blaze his shot over the top . |
| 22 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 23 | In the thirtieth minute , Gary Weaving scored what looked like a perfectly good goal , only for the linesman to rule it out for offside , to everyone 's dismay . |
| 24 | Steve Hancock then created a superb opportunity for Ray Caci with a brilliant through ball which beat the Barlaston defence , only for the forward to thunder his shot against the bar . |
| 25 | I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At Highlander , workshops of this sort of cultural exchange play a critical role in reaching across the natural human barriers which we can expect to find when a number of different people from widely different communities , cultural backgrounds , and economic and social circumstances are thrown together for a weekend to discuss their common problems in an attempt to find solutions . |
| 28 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
| 29 | But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind . |
| 30 | Jean-Charles Larran danced through for the opening try which Bellot converted . |