Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not long afterwards , watching , he saw them appear on the roof They looked around for a moment and then went down . |
| 2 | Alan Llwyd , who has himself won both the chair and crown of the National Eisteddfod twice in three years , worked on the screen adaptation of research he carried out for a blockbusting book on Hedd Wyn 's life . |
| 3 | When she went into the rest room she sat down for a minute while waiting for Peggy to come out of the lavatory . |
| 4 | In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration . |
| 5 | At Easter we went there for a holiday , and often have since . |
| 6 | The following day I signed up for an accountancy course as an ‘ extra option ’ . |
| 7 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 8 | Now these routines seemed to take most of the morning , and after lunch and a little rest she sallied forth for a walk . |
| 9 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 10 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing happened and as I like to race every weekend I signed up for a meeting in France on June 13 ’ , he said . |
| 12 | When she reached the bottom of the rather ornate staircase she hovered uncertainly for a moment , then with a defiant toss of her head she marched into the shabby splendour of the lounge before coming to a lame halt . |
| 13 | Last year they came back for a checkup and medics found their wheelchairs were ruined by the war torn terrain . |
| 14 | Over spaghetti they chatted casually for a while , then Rob said , ‘ You 're looking thinner . |
| 15 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |