Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 2 | I mean , it needs to perhaps perhaps they can do something for the first couple |
| 3 | And I think that if people who are still smoking , and I think nearly every smoker is unhappy with their habit , if they will remember that and think that they can actually do something for the next generation , it 's not their fault , there are people out there , there are forces out there who are forced them to start smoking and who are trying to get the generation to start . |
| 4 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 5 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Laboratories Inc — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 6 | With its self-imposed end-of-June deadline for publishing a common desktop environment specification now just six weeks off , the Common Open Software Environment firms — Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc , Univel Inc and Unix System Labs — are circulating ( internally ) a draft form of the ‘ Process Paper ’ which covers the scope of COSE and describes who will do what for the first of its promised offerings . |
| 7 | This data set , coupled with extensive satellite observations , will give us for the first time a essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean . |
| 8 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 9 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 10 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 11 | I do not know what purpose the meeting served in persuading Wapping of the merits of our plan , but it did enable me for the first and only time to see the terrain on which we were working and reinforced my enthusiasm to kill the committee at the earliest possible moment . |
| 12 | Not until he was five years old did Endill meet him for the first time . |
| 13 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |
| 14 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 15 | Oh and I 'll have one for the last card . |
| 16 | But he pledged last night that he would still be leading the team for tomorrow 's League game at Darlington even if Flashman does sack him for the third time in a year . |
| 17 | And he added , ‘ Please do n't send along the young pseudo-philosopher who will tell us for the umpteenth time that , of course , he fully understands the Bank 's attitude . |
| 18 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |
| 20 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 21 | He did n't know when he 'd be back and she should cancel everything for the next several days . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm buying it , but you can save it for the next guy . |
| 23 | I 'm not complaining about it , but I say I did n't raise it for the first time |
| 24 | For now , the Strongs wil just have to wait and prepare themselves for the next weekend that Purcell comes home . |
| 25 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 26 | We are unlikely to reach any definite agreement , but the debates will strengthen us for the next time , and weaken the impact of tangential arguments about policy presentation . |