Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we know that he was left this red chest of Flanders so we sought for a Flanders chest , that 's a chest probably actually made in North Germany but imported through Flanders and we found a Yorkshire example in a place called near Ripon . |
| 2 | Miranda fled , unseeing down the dark passage to the lavatory where she sat for a very long time feeling sick to her stomach . |
| 3 | He had made a detour to a cafe where he stayed for an unspecified time before walking to the Post and entering by the back door , discovering the mayhem in the newsroom and retreating to the printer 's office . |
| 4 | Do n't be bashful about telling folk how you feel for a loved one 's advice and experience will soon put your mind at rest . |
| 5 | Our two children , Virginia and Peter were born during the war and after Franklin was demobbed in 1946 we moved to Peterborough where he works for an engineering company . |
| 6 | Two days later he called for a purge of FIS ranks ; only those " who believed in the new era for the country and in others ' right of expression " should be retained . |
| 7 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 8 | Lulu Freston takes her pugs to the House of Commons where she works for an MP . |
| 9 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested last November when he arrived for a function at Gloucester Barracks in South Cerney . |
| 10 | It was the kind of place where you waited for a bus that never came . |
| 11 | the very next day anyway I sent for a doctor |
| 12 | There came a day when he arrived for a lecture in army uniform and carrying a rifle . |
| 13 | He was rushed to the intensive care unit at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool where he remained for a week before being transferred to a rehabilitation ward . |
| 14 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 15 | pulls on his trunks then he swims for a while , gets out , takes off his trunks , puts his towel round himself , rubs himself , walks round the pool a couple of times and rubs himself |
| 16 | He turned and headed for the door where he paused for a moment . |
| 17 | Consider this example : PB = Child has tantrum whenever he asks for a sweet ( or something else ) and does not get it . |
| 18 | Is the Fire Officer given every individual case where they apply for a licence over an old people 's home , and er , this sort of thing ? |
| 19 | Half way up he rested for a minute or so to rest his straining arm and shoulder muscles , then continued his exhausting climb . |
| 20 | I was , I was off on , on Sunday , I mean I 've joined yet another marriage agency , off on last Sunday to Latherham , with another nice old chap , you know , erm , I , I go out with erm , women friends , we , I 've arranged , er there 's one very , very good place that does lunches , run by a couple of homosexuals and erm , old age pensioners on Tuesday get , get a lunch , an eight pound lunch , for four pounds , so four friends , three friends and myself are going for a special Christmas lunch that they do , fortnight ago we went for a lunch with the group of the town 's women 's guild and friends , erm , my women 's group that I belong to over at the village of which is run by the television actress er Helen Fraser |
| 21 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |
| 22 | Farrelly met Sinead when she advertised for a band in an Irish music paper . |
| 23 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 24 | Lord May cast a different slant on the word early in the new century when he called for a ‘ Hooligan Conference ’ , later to go under the more dignified title of the Twentieth Century League . |
| 25 | But 10 years ago , Gerald Kingsland hit the headlines when he advertised for a woman to live with him on a desert island . |