Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once underground aquifers are polluted , contaminants can remain for hundreds of years . |
| 2 | Remaining stocks ( in electrical equipment , mostly ) are being burned , but traces will remain for many years . |
| 3 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 4 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 5 | A sufficient moral universe it may remain for those who inhabit it , but they are a dwindling band and for large areas of the country Labour 's world is a cultural world apart . |
| 6 | There they will remain for most of April , at least one of the pair on guard at all times on the loch in order to ward off any attempted ‘ take-over ’ , perhaps by young pairs who have n't been able to locate a suitable breeding site . |
| 7 | Normally the others would remain for another hour or so . |
| 8 | The alternative , according to response competition is : ‘ Ricky will remain for longer periods in his place doing what he is supposed to ’ . |
| 9 | The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group : |
| 10 | He 'll think for sure I arranged this ! ’ |
| 11 | And do you think for one minute they care a damn about you ? |
| 12 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 13 | You do n't think for one minute I 'm going to eat the filth I give to you ? |
| 14 | Being in with the gang did n't stop you getting hit but it meant that the Corporals might think for one second before lifting their fists Along with Mike the Rhodesian , Marius , Robert from Oberammergau and Chris , there was myself and a Frenchman called Tignet . |
| 15 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't think for one minute that he 'd made it there under his own steam , ’ Simone murmured , and André laughed smugly . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you really think , ’ Alexandra had said earnestly , a pile of linen sheets in her arms , ‘ do you truthfully think for one moment that Aunt Emily would wish this room to be kept like — like a museum ? |
| 18 | Ca n't think for one minutes if for instance was interested in a deal with that he , that er that he would n't , only just to have flick his fingers and would crap themselves |
| 19 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
| 20 | I do n't think for one minute that there are teachers who are drunk in charge of children in the classroom . |
| 21 | I mean you would n't you would n't think for one minute that Aunty Mary came from . |
| 22 | Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable . |
| 23 | What does she think for that matter ? |
| 24 | I would think for some of the younger ones who have n't seen or read a lot in the papers of where , what 's going on |
| 25 | There 'll be a great big clamour I sho I should think for those seats ! |
| 26 | The serfs had swallowed the slaves , a process made hopelessly obscure by the fact that the same word , servus , often did service for both . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you think that she 'll let me stay for good ? |
| 28 | He could bloody stay for all I care ! |
| 29 | On the fourth day of your holiday you 'll make the easy coach journey from Rome to Florence , where you 'll stay for four nights at the Hotel Columbus . |
| 30 | A SIGN outside a nursing home in the centre of Barnard Castle can stay for five years , an appeal inspector has ruled . |