Example sentences of "[verb] for a [noun sg] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 2 | His eyelids fluttered for a second and stayed shut until they reached the ground floor . |
| 3 | I stopped for a second and tried to think what my conclusive proof was . |
| 4 | She stopped for a minute and looked out at the fields . |
| 5 | He stopped for a moment and gazed about him . |
| 6 | She stopped for a moment and took a deep breath before checking the next crate . |
| 7 | The flat Polish landscape stretched away into the marshes to the south-east , and I stopped for a moment and stared towards them . |
| 8 | He stopped for a moment and looked around for Zach . |
| 9 | At the door he stopped for a moment and looked back , but then he turned and went out without another word . |
| 10 | She stopped for a moment and eyed Sophie thoughtfully . |
| 11 | How dare you patronize me , how dare you flaunt yourself at me when you know — ’ he stopped for a moment and shook his head . |
| 12 | She stopped for a breath and took a step nearer her mother . |
| 13 | A WRITTLE Agricultural College technician was banned from driving for a year and fined £270 with £35 costs by Witham magistrates yesterday after pleading guilty to driving with excess alcohol . |
| 14 | Both were also banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay £25 costs . |
| 15 | ‘ I freelanced for a while and ended up doing a lot of work for the Bee Gees in Florida , for Andy Gibb in particular . |
| 16 | Rather than mount from the ground , which can take some young horses by surprise just when you do n't want to , I opted for a leg-up and repeated the walk , trot and half transitions . |
| 17 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 18 | Gray began singing for Baldwin after her cousin — an avid Chicago house devotee who would occasionally drag Paris out to the city 's hottest clubs — heard Baldwin was looking for a singer and gave him Gray 's number . |
| 19 | Dexter yearned for a cigarette and squeezed his ballpoint tighter to quieten the urge . |
| 20 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 21 | They came for a draw and got it . |
| 22 | Well he he 'd got a , and if I 'd got to do it you know , another day , his er perhaps start and er i , well you know when he came for a meal and saw all that ? |
| 23 | Dora looked surprised , thought for a moment and said , ‘ Blue trousers and a white shirt , I think . ’ |
| 24 | At the top of the stairs I turned for a moment and found out . |
| 25 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 26 | The hostess of the coffee place thought they were waiting for a table and corrected them for not standing in the queue . |
| 27 | The defence minister , General Pavel Grachev , called for a compromise and promised that the army would stay out of the dispute . |
| 28 | I scooped them up before he could think of asking for a receipt and zippered them into a jacket pocket . |
| 29 | Jesus called for a coin and asked whose head and inscription were engraved on it . |
| 30 | After the letter came she had hoped for a miracle and prayed for one , too , but Richie Daly 's visit had snuffed out that hope in one short sentence . |