Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 3 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 4 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 5 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 6 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Once a month I go out for a serious session — the last of which was a hard circuit of Radnor Forest , but I enjoyed it tremendously . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know . |
| 9 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 10 | When you sit down for a wee while . |
| 11 | The sort of thing you read about for a cheap thrill in the advice column of a woman 's magazine — it really happens , it happens to you . |
| 12 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 14 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |
| 15 | Accent is on comfort when you step in for a relaxing drink . |
| 16 | Day Seven : Time at leisure until you check in for a scheduled flight home to London Heathrow . |
| 17 | As in the UK , researchers who need more for a specific project can also go to funding agencies which can be public , such as the German Research Society ( Deutsche Forschungs gemeinschaft or DFG ) , or private — the Volkswagen research fund is the biggest of these . |
| 18 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 19 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 20 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 21 | This is the moment when we decide whether we go in for a federal Europe or whether we go in for a Europe of member states trading together , competing together , co-operating together . |
| 22 | ‘ I do enjoy my job serving the customers because of the way some of them ask sheepishly for a jokey item , ’ says Jenny . |
| 23 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 24 | There was more bad news on the health front as they were the least likely to say they try hard for a healthy diet ( 37pc compared with 24pc ) . |
| 25 | It is at the larva stage of their development when boring and feeding of the grubs takes place that the damage is caused because the adult beetles do not eat and they live only for a short time . |
| 26 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |