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

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1 So now he worked for a taxi firm .
2 actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something .
3 We 'd have got here sooner only we stopped for a bite of something .
4 CELTIC aim to rewind the tape and produce an action replay at Parkhead tonight when they bid for a place in the third round of a European competition for the first time in nine years .
5 He did n't answer and shortly afterwards he slowed for a right-hand bend , his body bent forward , the dummy hand clamped tight on the steering wheel .
6 ‘ You have n't even asked me directly why I went for a walk with Flo this evening , for instance .
7 Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit .
8 Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge .
9 At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C.
10 You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty .
11 Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two
12 A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two .
13 ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’
14 He then passed on to Constantinople , where again he stopped for a while ; and on 23 January 1433 ( I Jumada II 836 ) he set out for Edirne .
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