Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just sit you down again for a minute , lassie . |
| 2 | I need you back home for a spell . ’ |
| 3 | Even before Hello , Dolly ! went into production , Richard Zanuck had agreed with Gene Kelly and producer Frank McCarthy , who together had made A Guide for the Married Man , to team them up again for a screen version of the fantasy Tom Swift and His Wizard Airship . |
| 4 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 5 | Wriggle your toes , then alternately curl them up tight for a count of five and stretch them out to another five count . |
| 6 | Among the more satisfied will be Aston Villa whose one one draw with currently Spain 's hottest club er certainly sets them up nicely for a place in the third round of the UEFA Cup . |
| 7 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 8 | ‘ You have done without me well enough for a year , and so you can now . ’ |
| 9 | Rory , having ducked out of meeting Rosie the night before , had said they 'd pick her up later for a meal , but his talk was all of Jessica . |
| 10 | Polly said she 'll have to have her up there , have to have her up there for a while she 's very low |
| 11 | We have n't seen her around here for a while . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Have n't seen him around here for a while . |
| 13 | Raising a hand , Vitor clasped her chin in his long fingers and held her almost fiercely for a moment . |
| 14 | Much to his surprise she chatted to him quite amicably for a change . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'll drag her round everywhere for a time , ’ said Beuno , ‘ and then he 'll get sick of her , or find some other girl who takes his fancy . |
| 16 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 17 | He looked at her very intently for a moment . |
| 18 | Try cutting it out altogether for a while , or at least giving it up during the week and reducing your weekend consumption . |
| 19 | Early this year I secluded myself up here for a life of quiet , concentrated study and meditation , rediscovering myself in the vastness and solitude of the mountains . |
| 20 | He stared at me very hard for a moment . |
| 21 | He would have loved me , oh yes , he would have loved me very much for a while . |