Example sentences of "[pron] for [art] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just stand by me for a little bit longer . |
| 2 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 3 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 4 | And the sold them for a third profit so what did he sell them for ? |
| 5 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 6 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 7 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 8 | AND PLENTY FOR THE LITTLE DUDES TOO |
| 9 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 10 | ‘ Though we 'll need to keep an eye on you for a good while afterwards and replenish your fluids thoroughly . |
| 11 | You need a sound night 's sleep to prepare you for the taxing journey tomorrow . |
| 12 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've never been one for a sweet wine Never . ’ |
| 14 | She sent him theatre tickets for two anonymously and bought herself one for a few seats further back . |
| 15 | got the right one for the right belt anyway yeah |
| 16 | we get one Mark we 're going to get one for the right reasons indeed . |
| 17 | They did not act since the case was one for the Russian authorities alone . |
| 18 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 19 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |
| 20 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 21 | You know he 's twenty two , twenty three years old , you know , you know whatever he 's doing he 's liable to be with him for a few years yet and what can one see |
| 22 | Claudia felt as if she were drowning in a pool of conflicting emotions ; the last thing she wanted was to go anywhere with Roman and yet the thought of being with him for a little while longer filled her with delight . |
| 23 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 24 | I met him for the first time ever when he took over the leadership of the party from the recently deceased Hugh Gaitskell in February 1963 . |
| 25 | He lay prone on top of her for a few moments then he rolled to one side , panting loudly , his breath slowly returning to normal . |
| 26 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 27 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 28 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 29 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 30 | Cook it for a few minutes longer than stated and eat it |