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 | 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 . |
10 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
11 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
12 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
13 | Consider this example : PB = Child has tantrum whenever he asks for a sweet ( or something else ) and does not get it . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ! |
16 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
17 | Did n't you go for a lovely bush walk to measure timber for the bridge ? |
18 | Why ca n't they plan for a longer term for those trees ? |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
21 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |
26 | 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 ) . |
27 | Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again . |
28 | And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top . |
29 | They 're not tight , that 's why I went for a one cos I thought it 's like a trainer in n it ? |
30 | ‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’ |