Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It might be impossible to draw everyone together for a single meeting but all need to be kept in touch with what 's going on and their opinions sought .
2 I was very new on the wing and someone in for a bad sex offence talked about their crime and I was badly affected .
3 Beatrice Webb wrote feelingly that the position of the unmarried daughter at home was ‘ an unhappy one even for a strong woman ’ .
4 I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent
5 Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever .
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