Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |
| 2 | ‘ I think we had better go inside for some explanations , ’ he said with a sigh . |
| 3 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 4 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 5 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 6 | In the silent happiness that was life in la Sologne , Jean-Claude explained to me why he was not working on Frontenac 's libretto and how he would not do so for any amount of money . |
| 7 | Fears of militancy resulting from unemployment and the inadequacy of voluntary efforts to relieve it led to some recognition that charity could not provide sufficiently for either type of unemployment . |
| 8 | They should not look actively for these behaviours : rather they should wait till they come to their attention before recording them . |
| 9 | While the area health authority ( AHA ) had commissioned work to consider the future of its long-stay hospitals , the looming 1982 reorganization of the NHS by which the area tier of authorities was to be abolished , did not augur well for any initiative to be taken forward from such work . |
| 10 | It will not run again for some time , but from the human point of view , all was well . |
| 11 | Jessie did not return home for several hours . |
| 12 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 13 | Blocked roads meant that many motorists could not get home for several hours . |
| 14 | The present legal position does not cater adequately for such contingencies , as Greengross ( 1986 ) has cogently pointed out . |
| 15 | Another issue is whether a refurbished general code of offences against the person , including clearly graded offences and ‘ threats ’ offences , would not cater adequately for these occasions . |
| 16 | It can also spread to the neck , arm or jaw and does n't usually ease off for several hours . |
| 17 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 18 | I have to say I did n't really care much for that kind of approach . |
| 19 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |
| 20 | This means they have to spend their first days of life in hospital and ca n't go home for several weeks . |
| 21 | But the non-conformists did n't go in for much decoration . |
| 22 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 23 | ‘ Stop fussing , ’ said Joe , ‘ I do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 24 | My family did n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 25 | er There is obviously a certain party atmosphere at Conferences , it 's the one big chance of the year for many many hard-working activists to get together and share ideas , it does engender er a certain amount of frivolity er around the edges , so we 'll see some of that , but we do n't go in for this cult of leadership which the other parties do , you wo n't see any manufactured longstanding ovations for er leaders . |
| 26 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 27 | They do n't go in for this sort of thing . |
| 28 | Well that , that 's why I think I went down so hard when I did n't get that job cos she said , I , I took , I took the erm , I went , I was the first , to go , first of all I did n't put in for this job it 's one that 's been laying around since last September , I wrote to , kept to St. Mary 's for this mental health thing and I got in touch with this Mrs and she said I 've got nothing I can offer you at the moment but I , I will be in touch and I went down the job centre one day and erm , there was this thing to say that they wanted mental nurses |
| 29 | He did n't come back for several hours , afraid of Mum 's temper but Dad said he would replace the mirror and this seemed to pacify her . |
| 30 | ‘ You wo n't get away for another day or two . |