Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for a [adj] [conj] " 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 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 3 | Searching around for a related but cooperative proposition that B might be intending to convey , we arrive at the opposite , or negation , of what B has stated namely that Britain does n't rule the seas , and thus by way of Relevance to the prior utterance , the suggestion that there is nothing that Britain could do . |
| 4 | Anna read the letter with incomprehension , then put Charlotte into her secondhand pram — donated by the Young Wives ' Group — and went out for a long and significant walk . |
| 5 | AN EERIE silence will descend on the steel town of Motherwell next weekend when the big Ravenscraig strip mill winds down for a long and unwelcome seasonal break . |
| 6 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |