Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After lunch I went for a walk in the little market town , now being hardened to being a subject of great curiosity , with people gaping at the sides of the road , and children following us up and down the street . |
| 2 | Yet , ironically , Stead 's recollection of Eliot 's walking in the woods , in true Frazerian style , after his baptism at Finstock in Oxfordshire on 29 June 1927 , perceives just the unusual link of savage and city which Eliot might appear to have renounced : ‘ … after dinner we went for a twilight walk through Wychwood , an ancient haunted forest , ‘ savage and enchanted ’ . |
| 3 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |
| 4 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 5 | A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink . |
| 6 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 7 | Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices . |
| 8 | The amount of time it takes for a lizard to turn into a bird ; love |
| 9 | With her there is another bird which at first and with excitement we take for a king eider , but closer inspection reveals it to be an immature eider drake still paddling along near his mother . |
| 10 | In mid-battle they break for a bit of a graze . |
| 11 | Shortly before dawn I slept for a while on top of the wheelhouse . |
| 12 | On arrival he applied for a passport , but neither the French , the Austrian or the Prussian embassies were willing to provide one and he was ultimately obliged to travel disguised , on a Swiss passport . |
| 13 | For filtration I looked for a Fluval 303 . |