Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze . |
| 2 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 3 | Sun Microsystems Inc duly unveiled plans for a European software centre located on the outskirts of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland last week ( CI No 2,1180 . |
| 4 | Queen Margaret College yesterday announced plans for a major expansion on to a new campus , costing up to £10 million and aimed at carrying the former domestic science school to the size required for university status . |
| 5 | He always found room for a long line of sweet peas ; it gave him immense pleasure to pick an armful of these , take them home , present them to Mum and fill the house with their glorious scent . |
| 6 | THE Prime Minister yesterday rejected demands for a full public inquiry into the Beverley Allitt child killer case , with powers to compel witnesses to attend . |
| 7 | The sweet trolley arrived , and he was dismayed to see she still had appetite for a generous wedge of Black Forest Gâteau . |
| 8 | Darlington Operatic Society yesterday staged auditions for a handsome blade to play Young Walsingham in its new production of Half A Sixpence . |
| 9 | Mr Parkinson also announced approval for a new £200m air traffic control centre to be built by the Civil Aviation Authority by the early 1990s . |
| 10 | He also provided lyrics for a musical ( Whitaker was an accomplished pianist ) and even wrote comedy links for several variety shows . |
| 11 | In this film Leonard recorded eight poems from his recent book ( ‘ For Wilf And His House ’ , ‘ Beside The Shepherd ’ , ‘ Poem ’ , ‘ Lovers ’ , ‘ The Sparrows ’ , ‘ Warning ’ , ‘ Les Vieux ’ and ‘ Elegy ’ ) ; the sleeve was careful to emphasise that he also wrote songs for a local group called The Stormy Clovers , by no means his first such work . |
| 12 | Thirdly , a really effective and comprehensive defence structure for the European Community would be viable outside NATO only if it inevitably involved aspirations for a nuclear capacity . |
| 13 | With the help of a technical communications consultant , the team then devised specifications for a new system to serve John Wood House including Group , WGEC and SRR as well as linking the BP project building and the Materials handling building . |
| 14 | Less sensitive than the nurses , he evidently took Richard for a quarrelsome garage proprietor . |
| 15 | As a child I kept an unending diary ; as a student in Louisiana I wrote some tv news scripts ( and damaged the teleprompt during a live transmission , which put an end to that little job ) ; back home I produced beautifully worded advertisements for a local free paper . |