Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation . |
| 2 | There should be no more nonsense about one or other of them moving out for a matter of days or weeks only for the unsatisfactory relationship to resume just as unsatisfactorily as before . |
| 3 | ‘ I do enjoy my job serving the customers because of the way some of them ask sheepishly for a jokey item , ’ says Jenny . |
| 4 | The women lived with it — some of them came here for a week and then went back to it . |
| 5 | The world is full of stray cats , many of them searching hopefully for a new home . |
| 6 | " You can ask one or two of them to stay behind for a drink , if you like , " Laura said , " if there 's anyone possible . " |
| 7 | But anyway , this was the first we have such a conference every five years , but over a thousand of us sat around for a week and talked about evolution , and there was one rather curious fact about Vancouver , or the media of Vancouver , during that week . |
| 8 | ‘ They just collapse , ’ he said , leaning against his winning pumpkin , which looked like something run up for a stage set . |
| 9 | It 's not like us nipping down for a pint with the vicar ! ’ |
| 10 | Does not he recognise that it is a broadly based representative body in which it was open to the Conservative party to participate and that for him to call now for a debate , once its work is completed , is extraordinary ? |
| 11 | She told the Liverpool inquest that on March 9 this year they had argued about her going out for a drink with some friends in the city centre . |
| 12 | I have selected these six passages because they appear to me to call effectively for a rethinking of practically every aspect of the pre-1967 school curriculum in Tanzania — its underlying values , the structure , the balance between in-school and out-of-school activities , the content and pacing of the materials in relation to the age of the learners and the whole process and attitude towards evaluation . |
| 13 | Second rower Sonny Nickle , after good work by Kiwis George Mann and Cooper , tapped the ball to himself to plunge over for a try . |
| 14 | I knew she was unhappy about his going away for a whole weekend when she was too sick to accompany him . |