Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will . |
| 2 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 3 | Questions poured towards the chair , and Mrs Murphy banged her gavel so hard on the coffee table that it left a mark , which distressed her so much that she forgot for a moment why she was hammering and stared sadly at the dent in the wood . |
| 4 | ‘ There are so many more cross-border deals today , and if you can speak German or French or Japanese and you go for a job against somebody who is equally qualified but only speaks English , you will get hired . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't recall , well in fact I 'm being sarcastic because I know for a , we know that it was n't in the manifesto for nineteen ninety two . |
| 6 | But it was on days like these that one longed for a friend , hoped for a caller . |
| 7 | It was unfortunate that he returned for a short time but this was necessary in order for him to complete training prior to deploying on an operational tour . ’ |
| 8 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 9 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 10 | It was going fine till I tried for a reduction . |
| 11 | Yet for all that he no longer believed the creed in which he had been raised : for all that he fought for a king against an upstart general , for the old order against the new , Karelius recognized that at heart he would always be one of Cromwell 's men . |
| 12 | I bought all that I needed for a laboratory , and sent everything to Scotland . |
| 13 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 14 | You can do this yourself , although it will probably be better if you arrange for a vet to undertake the task in the first instance , as it is important to judge the required length properly . |
| 15 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 16 | Llanelli and Neath put on a show as good as anything seen for a long time at club level . |
| 17 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 18 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 19 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 20 | They spent their six-hour train journey drinking — and went into a pub for more while they waited for a connection . |
| 21 | He stressed that this would be temporary whilst he looked for a replacement . |
| 22 | Thereafter , the party made steady progress during the late 1930s as it campaigned for a policy of collective security against the threat of European fascism almost , it seemed , in the face of the complacency of Neville Chamberlain 's National government . |
| 23 | Wilkinson will now try to qualify for the British Open as he aims for a European tour card later in the year . |
| 24 | Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child . |
| 25 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 26 | His parents were not surprised when he asked for a lock on his bedroom door before he had reached his teenage years . |