Example sentences of "[pron] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] [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 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
| 5 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 6 | And the sold them for a third profit so what did he sell them for ? |
| 7 | Seventy boys and girls from U6 to U14 played rugby — most of them for the first time ever . |
| 8 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 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 | got the right one for the right belt anyway yeah |
| 15 | continued his award winning streak by landing two other trophies ; one for scoring the most 180 totals , four in all , and one for the highest check out score , which was 135 . |
| 16 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Then what happens is , we take him for a little ride out to the Crumbles . ’ |
| 21 | Frau Nordern gazed at him for an icy moment then stalked into the bedroom . |
| 22 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I only met her for the first time earlier this evening . ’ |
| 26 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 27 | It had prepared her for the coming meeting when she would be alone at last with the youth who was King of England ; the youth she loved … |
| 28 | Mere faith in an idea can only sustain it for a limited time especially when others are required to act upon that faith . |
| 29 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 30 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |