Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know I lay awake for a little while last night and came to the conclusion that I had no grounds for thinking him old or frumpy ? |
| 2 | Before making more coffee I stand silent for a full minute , to be sure there 's nothing out there I should have heard . |
| 3 | In the motorway restaurant , I chose a bland meal I thought suitable for a little girl , and had a chicken salad myself . |
| 4 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 5 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 6 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 7 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
| 8 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 9 | She stayed awake for a long time wondering uneasily whether cruelty was a natural part of her character , or whether its expression was merely an aspect of growing up . |
| 10 | She stood still for a long moment that seemed to the others to grow into an age . |
| 11 | If such exercises are repeated quickly enough to cause you to become breathless for a prolonged period , you will be building stamina too . |
| 12 | She sat still for a full five minutes , then stood up brusquely . |
| 13 | She sat immobile for a long time , staring into the embers of the dying fire , her thoughts so chaotic that she could hardly make any order out of them . |
| 14 | We remained numb for a long time . |
| 15 | Spasm of the arteries in one or more fingers makes them go white for a varying length of time . |
| 16 | But misses at times when they seemed set for a good end let the Stranraer team in . |
| 17 | They fell silent for a few moments as they drank their tea . |
| 18 | United played some classy football against Millwall in the first half … they looked good for a few goals but ended with nothing … |
| 19 | It tastes alright for a few mouthfuls and then it like gets a bit monotonous . |
| 20 | It was New Year 's Eve and the midnight sky was still bright : Punta Arenas is at 53°S , and although on a similar longitude to Halifax has been shunted , by Professor Dowd 's descendants , into the same time zone as New York — all of which means that it stays light for a great deal longer than in most cities , and we celebrated the coming of the New Year in almost broad daylight . |
| 21 | It seems impossible for a well-selling pop record to vanish from the face of the earth , but it actually seems to have happened here . |
| 22 | It seems severe for a technical offence , and it hurts . |
| 23 | I ca n't vouch for this hotel but it looked wonderful for a romantic weekend . |
| 24 | Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows . |
| 25 | He fell asleep for a few hours just before dawn and woke cold and cramped , his head on the small desk , his body somehow wedged on the stool . |
| 26 | He fell silent for a few moments , shredding the paper that had wrapped his sugar cube . |
| 27 | Then he fell silent for a little while , as if in meditation . |
| 28 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 29 | ‘ He kept quiet for a long time working out how long soap could keep for , then he just said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to sell the things . ’ |
| 30 | He lay awake for a long time looking for possible connections between the incidents and listening to Rain breathing . |