Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley
2 So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’
3 So we went for a last look round .
4 I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home .
5 Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two
6 Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression .
7 So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy .
8 The tenant should also ensure that this covenant contains a provision that the lease being granted to the guarantor does not itself provide for a new guarantor to be joined .
9 Topper was not one to strive for an imaginative simile when a well-used one came to hand .
10 Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day .
11 At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C.
12 Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge .
13 Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me .
14 Consider this example : PB = Child has tantrum whenever he asks for a sweet ( or something else ) and does not get it .
15 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 .
16 He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held .
17 HAVING the only large area of concrete within the town boundary , Wallingford 's forecourt has become the ‘ traditional ’ assembly area for all the local activities from scouting to carnival parades and now it seems for a 1920s engine boiler !
18 Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down .
19 Did n't you go for a lovely bush walk to measure timber for the bridge ?
20 Why ca n't they plan for a longer term for those trees ?
21 True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life .
22 So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water .
23 Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time .
24 There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears .
25 Do n't be bashful about telling folk how you feel for a loved one 's advice and experience will soon put your mind at rest .
26 ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’
27 They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes .
28 There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn .
29 ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time .
30 But it takes no long reflexion to see that , in this case , if the interrogative is acceptable , then it asks for a straightforward manner adverbial or its equivalent as an answer , and it is not directly related to the sentences in ( 33 ) .
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