Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 2 | The pattern is very much first half er , erm , loss or small profit , second half all the profit and in fact you should watch out for the bigger , the bigger Addison Wesley gets , the more the loss in the second half will be because we 're investing for that sale |
| 3 | Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation . |
| 4 | The outcome is expected to influence Scottish Homes in deciding whether Waverley or Eildon should go forward for a four-week postal ballot in June . |
| 5 | if I won bigger money , I should go in for a new house , which would be built to our own idea , so that we could get a bigger scullery … . |
| 6 | It should prove so for the first killer as well . |
| 7 | And I do , and I do , I must say not for the last time during the passage of this Bill , I do feel constrain to offer my very deep sympathy to my Noble Friend on the front bench . |
| 8 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 9 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 10 | We 'll go right for the awkward ones and put an X and a Y in as well . |
| 11 | Yes well I 'll go fortnightly for a little while then it 'll tail off . |
| 12 | So then I decided I would like to be that I knew there was a job going on the electricians , so I thought well I 'll I 'll go in for the electrical side . |
| 13 | I 'll get this train stopped and we 'll go back for the lost car . |
| 14 | One might pay more for a private company because a pre-acquisition investigation could be more thorough . |
| 15 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 16 | It might go well for the first three or four months , and then all of a sudden we might have a lapse in a few months , |
| 17 | You would think that one of us might scurry around for a new word instead of accepting linguistic hand-me-downs . |
| 18 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 19 | It was n't until we told him , that he exclaimed ‘ Oh yes , I remember the Institute Netball Team first time round in the 70's — Oh yes , a right tough lot ! ’ — Marion , we 'll get together for a few team tactics eh ? |
| 20 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 21 | Now if they 're multiplied or divided then you ca n't say , Oh well I 'll just take this bit and do that and then I 'll come back for the other one . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I 'll come along for a little while to the bonfire , but do n't accept for me later . |
| 23 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |
| 24 | Dana has missed a few fittings , but the earth wo n't stop turning and I 'm sure she 'll turn up for the next one . ’ |
| 25 | We can only pray and hope it 'll turn out for the best . ’ |
| 26 | She says yeah she says I 'll pop in for a quick cuppa . |
| 27 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 28 | I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’ |
| 29 | If you could qualify either for a reduced pension of your own or a dependant 's addition , the higher of the two would be paid . |
| 30 | He 'd speak out for a poor helpless old man like Donny , just as he did for Ireland . ’ |