Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 6 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 7 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 8 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 9 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |
| 12 | Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But the employers persuaded them to hold off until 1966 , when they settled for a mere 5 per cent rise over the three years to 1969 . |
| 15 | I think people wanted a change and that 's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor . |
| 16 | Instead he called for a new security order based either on " trilateral Soviet-Japanese-US consultations and concrete agreements " , or a five-power conference involving China , India , Japan , the Soviet Union and the USA . |
| 17 | Lech Walesa became the first Polish President to visit Israel when he arrived for a four-day visit on May 20 . |
| 18 | Giles was held in high esteem in America and Europe , especially in Berlin , where he worked for a short time . |
| 19 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 20 | 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 . |