Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb past] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man , told by his doctor that he had cancer , retreated to his bedroom and wept for a week , refusing to eat and waiting to die . |
| 2 | And , as he finished pouring their brandies , she walked ahead of him through the open doorway and stood for a moment before the huge window , listening to the music , gazing out to sea , aware of a sense of peace and deep contentment . |
| 3 | I stopped the car and thought for a bit . |
| 4 | George Burley presently came into the dining car and spoke for a while to Nell , who subsequently went from table to table , clipboard in place , repeating what he 'd said . |
| 5 | We stopped the boat and drifted for a while , and the birds relaxed and moved back towards Bound Skerry the rock in a long line — which did the trick ! |
| 6 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 7 | Hundreds of eyes stared fixedly as the laird stepped out onto the gravel and stood for a moment with his chin jutting and his mouth pulled down , like a general reviewing his troops . |
| 8 | Rab , fat Phillis : he felt to lift the coal hammer but settled for a feather . |
| 9 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 10 | She shut the window and stood for a moment , her hands still on the bottom bar of the sash , arrested by a sudden thought . |
| 11 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
| 12 | She replaced the phone in Bishop Julian 's hall and stood for a moment indecisively . |
| 13 | A traveller in Scotland went into a pub and asked for a pint of bitter . |
| 14 | She might have backed off , gone into the pub and telephoned for a cab to fetch her ; but Holly knew who she was supposed to be meeting and she would feel foolishly fainthearted next day if she had to confess to being too nervous to see the matter through . |
| 15 | If things went wrong , she would be blamed , and her career as a detective — the career she had fought for so tenaciously , against the depredations of her husband , against male prejudice , against policemen who drove up back alleys on patrol when she was a constable and groped for a kiss — that career might crumble to dust . |
| 16 | They left the fate and wondered for a moment about returning to Ring 's . |
| 17 | Then they went to bed again and drank and loved two nights away and then they had a party and then they made a giant salad of mushrooms and tomatoes and sweetcorn and ham and avocado and lettuce and hibernated for a week . |
| 18 | To get started on the making of the wine you needed three or four bees which were freely available from friends or neighbours , you filled a jam jar with water to about half an inch from the top , added two desert spoonfuls of sugar , placed the ‘ bees ’ on the water , covered with muslin and waited for a fortnight . |
| 19 | She picked up the telephone and asked for a courier service . |
| 20 | That evening I rang Fred Workman , News Editor of the Times-Herald , at his home and asked for a job as cub reporter . |
| 21 | A deal of Tony 's documentary work seems to involve some form of danger , ‘ I went to Asia twice ; in 1986 and when the Soviets began their pullout and stayed for a year and a half in Peshawar , Pakistan . |
| 22 | Christina walked behind the reception desk and asked for a copy of Mr Banville 's account . |
| 23 | so I slung my hook and went for a coffee . |
| 24 | An inquiry is underway into how a tube train with passengers on board took off without a driver and travelled for a mile and through a station before being halted by an automatic signal . |
| 25 | She found a bookshop and browsed for a while . |
| 26 | She said that she 'd be happy with wine so he caught somebody 's eye and asked for a carafe of the house red . |
| 27 | A beautiful girl went into a sweet shop and asked for a box of chocolates . |
| 28 | He straightened up , came to the front of the shop and stood for a moment looking out impassively . |
| 29 | Hatchard put down his notebook and ballpoint and reached for a cigarette . |
| 30 | It has always been I who have calmed her , though sometimes the Sweeper has come in the evening and stood for a while at her cage and she has calmed in his good presence . |