Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 3 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 4 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 5 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 6 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 7 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 8 | and erm I used to do erm , keep a check on the flying times of the planes cos every forty hours they had to come in for a different check . |
| 9 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 10 | We used to come in for a fair amount of ribbing and good-natured chaff , and remarks like , Was it a red sky this morning ? |
| 11 | She said politely , ‘ Would you like to come in for a last drink ? ’ |
| 12 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Sixty miles they used to come over for a good evening at those and maybe two principles |
| 14 | We will continue to work strenuously for a political agreement which is acceptable to all the parties involved in the talks which the Secretary of State has had during the past year with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland the Government of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 15 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 17 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 18 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 19 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |
| 20 | A good negotiator can make a customer feel satisfied after they have had to work hard for a small discount . |
| 21 | When a particular task requires expatriates to work overseas for a short period of time , it is common for employers to hire people with the necessary skills on short , fixed-term contracts . |
| 22 | The visitors continued to search desperately for a late equaliser , but Ipswich dug deep and hung on to book a quarter-final tussle at home to Sheffield Wednesday next month . |
| 23 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 24 | A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording . |
| 25 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 26 | If England were to decline to tour India on the grounds of safety , other countries might not be so willing to visit there for a one-day jamboree . |
| 27 | Jill returned in the spring of 1974 and was told to look around for a suitable site . |
| 28 | He 'll be busy , and I 'll have to walk around for a whole hour on my own . |
| 29 | We are urgently searching for a set — I 've been informed that some surviving sets are twisted — and if it means that we have to look abroad for a new set in Poland than so be it ! |
| 30 | The complexity was intended to last only for a transitional period . |