Example sentences of "[prep] this for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 2 | Gardeners have been arguing about this for years , so I hope we can clear the matter up now once and for all . |
| 3 | She has criticisms against statutory agencies who do nothing about this for fear of being branded racists . |
| 4 | She thought about this for a moment or two and then said : ‘ I see no harm in that . |
| 5 | But they did agree to disagree about the how and why of storytelling and , as Ms Sontag concluded , ‘ We are going to go on talking about this for many years but now , alas , we have to stop ’ . |
| 6 | Well , how about this for a scenario : twenty years of solid touring and recording for major names ; a niche in the elite ‘ who 's who ’ of session guitarists on both sides of the Atlantic ; featured on television three times a week backing major artists live on a very hip chat show ; going straight into production for another live prime-time show on Saturday nights ; and work with Tom Jones , Al Jarreau , Stevie Wonder , Mica Paris , Cindi Lauper , Bob Geldof and Curtis Stigers , to name but a few . |
| 7 | He thought about this for a moment , and shook his head . |
| 8 | Masklin thought about this for a while . |
| 9 | I 've thought about this for years and never told anybody … |
| 10 | Don Mini thought about this for a while , then he said , ‘ You are a very small boy and because of that I think a swan could carry you quite easily . ’ |
| 11 | And you think about this for a while — how a 72-year-old man can get away with a storyline that rappers 50 years his junior would get a battering for . |
| 12 | Stuart thought about this for a while . |
| 13 | And what we 're getting here actually is a recreation of the area health authority they 're actually gon na be situated in the same office block where the old area authority used to be in Witham erm , and the community health council which I represent this authority on has certainly been er , raising a number of questions about this for fear of centralisation in Witham , erm with perhaps the lack of accessibility to local needs of West Essex and in Harlow particularly , . |
| 14 | He thought about this for a moment . |
| 15 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | Gedanken thought about this for a while . |
| 17 | After thinking about this for a few minutes , he said , ‘ No ; it must be imagination . ’ |
| 18 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 19 | My mother thought about this for a moment until comprehension came to her , whereupon she changed the subject out of deference to my youth and inexperience . |
| 20 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
| 21 | Bill Clough lay thinking about this for some time . |
| 22 | And wh y'know we thought about this for a y'know a long time t and what we do want is a thin tier of bureaucracy . |
| 23 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
| 24 | They 've known they 've known about this for a fair while . |
| 25 | Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in . |
| 26 | How about this for a cheeky goal … skipper Chris Myers caught Town asleep with a quickly taken free kick … |
| 27 | You have to sit back and think about this for a moment to sort out what 's going on . |
| 28 | How about this for re-use ! . |
| 29 | How about this for an abstract idea ! |
| 30 | We buy a nice little time manager thing , with little pink elephants in it , and goodness knows what , and we spend eight hundred pounds to get something to tell us how to time manage , and you really get enthusiastic about this for three months , and then you put it in the drawer and go back to your diary . |