Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 32 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 33 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |
| 34 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 35 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 36 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 37 | ‘ I smiled for a brief moment in triumph , ’ he said , ‘ then , as the photographers moved |
| 38 | After a birching twelve shillings and sixpence for " school medicine " was reputedly put on the school bill — I presume for a new birch , but I never verified this . |
| 39 | I cried for a long time when I saw that big dark hole in the ground , and we put his body in the grave . |
| 40 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 41 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 42 | I wished for a new dress as I washed and ironed my old yellow home-made mini for the hundredth time . |
| 43 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |
| 44 | I waited for a full hour before I caught a glimpse of the sight that I had come to see . |
| 45 | It is not true I married for a red corduroy jacket belonging to my wife 's father ; but there is no denying he did pass it on to me , as a sort of dowry I believe . |
| 46 | I I quoted for a rolled screw once , yeah and my buying price from I 'm talking about a year and half ago , was higher than 's quoted price for a ground bore screw . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | one Friday , having done my weekend cleaning and baked a batch of bread during the day , I hoped for a good night 's rest , but I scarcely had retired before my labour began . |
| 49 | As a development geneticist , I hoped for a personal synthesis of the subject viewed from a different perspective . |
| 50 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 51 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 52 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 53 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 54 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 55 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 56 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 57 | I sat for a long while , clutching the unfinished poem , gazing beyond it . |
| 58 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 59 | In the early seventies I canvassed for a Labour candidate , who , when elected , turned out to be anti-gay . |
| 60 | Now I work for a local authority so I 've got a big interest in this , but I 've also been involved as John will remember in a strike . |