Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 2 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 3 | If you attempt to pass the SPR on for the seventh time or to the same user twice , LIFESPAN will display an error message and you will not be allowed to pass it on . |
| 4 | Trading in for a smaller house or flat again releases considerable capital , which is often shared with the offspring . |
| 5 | Knit two rows and bind off for a round neck or cast off for a V-neck . |
| 6 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 7 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 8 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 9 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 10 | The body of a cat when hunting takes on a quite different demeanour to that of the same pussy when out for an idle stroll or with some other intention in mind . |
| 11 | She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending . |
| 12 | You 'd think he 'd have told you he would n't be around for the next week or two . |