Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 2 | " I just looked in for a moment to see how you were getting on together . |
| 3 | She said oh no I just rang up for a chat . |
| 4 | It is possible that I even dozed off for a few seconds , exhausted by the day 's work . |
| 5 | I even wondered just for a moment if she had , unknown to me , made another , negative , speech later in the day . |
| 6 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 7 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 8 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 10 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 11 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 12 | Tell him , said Jo said you never called in for a quick , I do n't mind David he 's alright |
| 13 | ‘ After paying for the carpet we still had enough for a small celebration . ’ |
| 14 | We even split up for a while . |
| 15 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 16 | We actually split up for a few days because his mother sent a Christmas card to him and not to me . |
| 17 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 18 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 19 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 20 | Holding , and when he finally bowled Amiss for a splendid 203 it was clear that the follow-on would not be avoided . |
| 21 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 22 | He had two holidays a year : in May he usually went abroad for a fortnight , then in October he would have another fortnight somewhere in this country . ’ |
| 23 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |