Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
| 2 | A CONVICTED killer allowed out for a stroll in the grounds of a mental hospital just kept walking — and was still missing yesterday , 24 hours later . |
| 3 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 4 | The work hummed on for a while . |
| 5 | oh look at the sky it 's grey , the sun came out for a minute , but it 's all grey again , oh , this sides ever so stiff |
| 6 | If a firm was not maximising its future cash flows , and hence its value , an opportunity opened up for a bid . |
| 7 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
| 8 | At the other end Tyrone Howe who saw very little of the ball during the match went over for a try in the left corner , following a fine break from Andrew Gallagher . |
| 9 | Purple took over for a while , ha . |
| 10 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 11 | United keeper Simon Tracey was last night ruled out for a fortnight as understudy Alan Kelly mounted a takeover bid . |
| 12 | LIVERPOOL 'S Michael Thomas was last night ruled out for a month after an Achilles tendon operation . |
| 13 | The goalkeeper was well beaten , but as the ball cannoned over for a goal kick and the chance went . |
| 14 | ‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ? |
| 15 | When the court sat we were told that the King had died then the court went out for a while . |
| 16 | Everything cooks very slowly in a slo-cooker because the heating element is extremely gentle and costs no more to use than leaving a light bulb switched on for a day ( a few pence ) . |
| 17 | The photograph itself is marred by the double-exposure of a dining-room laid out for a party , subconsciously reminding us to ‘ eat , drink and be merry , for tomorrow we die ’ . |
| 18 | With the sea-routes open again trade picked up for a while . |
| 19 | The computer went down for a while , it 's probably full of water |
| 20 | I told him it was n't me. ’ — The amateur footballer sent off for a foul by his twin brother . |
| 21 | Looking at the paraphernalia attached to the subject wired up for a night 's recording , one might legitimately ask whether anybody could reasonably be expected to feel natural , and get to sleep in their usual way . |
| 22 | When life sank down for a moment , the range of experience seemed limitless … . |
| 23 | A barking broke out for a bit and then was still . |
| 24 | Instead of looking for new approaches that could galvanize the industry to deal with its problems , the call went up for a leader who would , in the words of one Bioscope editorial , be able ‘ to make order out of disorder , to organize agreement and concord with a strong hand , tactfully and helpfully , yet with a stern repression of pettiness and ignoble motives . ’ . |
| 25 | When this goon is at the point of his beat furthest away from our stretch of wire , the Wing Commander will give the signal to Clinker here — ’ a dark beetle-like man stood up for a moment and sat down again , ‘ — who will fuse the entire lighting system of the camp including the searchlights . ’ |
| 26 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 27 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 28 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 29 | In the qualifying stages they were drawn against Finland and Norway and staggered unconvincingly towards the finals , after only 13 members of the pool turned up for a training session at Ayr before the vital away match in Oslo . |
| 30 | The kettle went on for a lunchtime brew-up before we tackled the group of small , uninhabited islands which lie west of Whalsay : Nacka Skerry , Nista , Mooa , Isbister Holm ( the only place in Shetland where sea-aster grows ) , East Linga and Grif Skerry . |