Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pron] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time I saw Jonathan was Thursday evening when he picked me up in the car and we went for a drive . |
| 2 | Er I 'm a thirty four year old accountant work and I work for a a pi |
| 3 | The man counts the money and they argue for a while , Tod saying nine hundred , the man saying seven , then the man saying six while Tod holds out for a thou , and so on . |
| 4 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 5 | She took the package and it lay for a moment in her lap while she stared down at it . |
| 6 | It 's the twenty third , I said that 's on Saturday , he said oh we have got these dates wrong now , I said er what you 've cancelled is my personal booking but they ask for a work number you see . |
| 7 | Yes , you could do that , so , so y you go for erm a very high rate of taxation or you go for a lower rate of taxation which is |
| 8 | The author of The Jovial Cutlers , Joseph Mather , was himself a working cutler and he wrote for an audience of his fellows . |
| 9 | And when they go on holiday with Ann and the old man they used to get through a hundred pounds a day and they go for a week . |
| 10 | ( Beckett 1959 and 1979 : 9 ) , while Flann O'Brien 's narrator comments , ‘ one beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with ’ and goes on to offer ‘ three openings entirely dissimilar ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 9 ) . |
| 11 | It seemed as if it were coming from a long distance and he waited for a moment , and the moment went into a full minute , and then slowly he opened the door . |
| 12 | He returned the embrace and they relaxed for a while in the comfort and safety of each other . |
| 13 | His wages in 1780 were 20 shillings ( £1 ) a week and he asked for an increase to 2 guineas ( £2.10 ) a week . |
| 14 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 15 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 16 | Upstream , through the gorge known as the Wachau , runs one of the prettiest stretches of the river and I sat for a pleasant hour on its embankment watching the swallows skim its waters . |
| 17 | Odd-Knut finds a steep up-slope where a river joins the lake and we play for a bit going up and down steep slopes . |
| 18 | and we either go with the word report or we look for an alternative word or words . |
| 19 | Then I was able to er go for my own self , you know and er I went on doing locks , one thing and another , best I could and all that sort of thing and I worked for a , a bloke what was in there er be a little bloke but he was the best locksmith in the shop and I went to help him and er he used to give me all the to do and this and that and the other . |
| 20 | It did n't dawn on me how seriously injured I was until I got into hospital and they sent for a cameraman to photograph me because they had never seen anyone survive injuries like mine and they wanted a record . |
| 21 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 22 | After supper my father went to see the doctor and they went for a walk together to kill time up until the appointed hour . |
| 23 | I doubt either can afford to stay at a hotel and I know for a fact that they 're not at any of the local hostels ; neither , I have been reliably informed , have they put in an appearance at the local ‘ hippie ’ compound . |
| 24 | He produced a pocket-book and I thought for a moment he was going to tip me . |
| 25 | There was a movement at the door of the office and she stiffened for a moment , remembering Jarrett Keach 's warning about security . |
| 26 | But on the way she noticed a crowd listening to a preacher and she stopped for a while to join them . |
| 27 | There 's a telephone on the wall just by my table and I think for a bit about who I 'd like to phone . |
| 28 | She went up the stairs two Levels , dodged across a gangpath to another stair and went up that five Levels , and finally , across another gangpath and she leapt for a lift just leaving . |
| 29 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |