Example sentences of "an [noun] [verb] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't afford half an hour waiting for you to show up . ’ |
| 2 | Whenever an opportunity arose for him to spike evidence or arguments favourable to the defence , he did not hesitate to do so , even at one choleric moment telling Nicky not to be stupider than he was ; and his summing-up was a summing-up for the prosecution . |
| 3 | For instance , a computer can search he words of titles and print out all items containing the relevant key terms , but if an astronomer asks for anything to do with black holes , he may find himself presented with material on the Black Hole of Calcutta , or titles in which the two words appear separately and accidentally , unless the search procedure is more tightly controlled . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , by ‘ obey ’ Paul is not referring to servile obedience to an authoritarian master , but an injunction to workers to carry out the job an employer has for them to accomplish . |
| 5 | ‘ An officer signalled for her to stop but she carried on for a mile and mounted the kerb on one occasion , ’ Tony Malyon , prosecuting , told Pontypool magistrates . |