Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat for a while holding the baby under my hands . |
| 2 | I sat for a while watching the scenery slide by , wild uninhabited stretches of green and autumn-blazing trees , grey rocks and blue lakes punctuated by tiny hamlets and lonely houses , all vivid in the afternoon sunshine , a panoramic impression of the vastness of Canada and the smallness of her population . |
| 3 | This done , I stood for a moment looking across at the broch islet . |
| 4 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 5 | Hands linked behind her head , she lay for a while thinking over the extraordinary events of the day . |
| 6 | She paused for a moment remembering how from her earliest days she had sat with her father in the small shed working the leather . |
| 7 | She paused for a moment looking for the right words . |
| 8 | She stood for a moment looking at them , and saw how their heads were tilted in the listening attitudes of forest creatures , how their ears were pricked , and how their eyes were bright and intelligent . |
| 9 | Dalgliesh waited until Meg had unlocked the front door and stepped inside before saying his final goodnight , and she stood for a moment watching his tall figure striding down the gravel path and into the darkness . |
| 10 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
| 11 | She stood for a moment staring round at the flickering shadows thrown by the lone candle , the fire had died long since and the room was cold and suddenly lonely . |
| 12 | Valerie Stevens had been in the house to get more coffee and as she stepped through the patio doors she stood for a moment staring at Rachel in horror , having only heard the last part of the conversation . |
| 13 | It was a gabled Victorian house set behind a high red brick wall in the heart of the city and as Rachel drew on to the gravel forecourt she sat for a moment admiring the mass of copper beeches that surrounded the house . |
| 14 | After crossing the dock channel by way of the lock gates catwalk , they paused for a while watching and listening to the bedlam of noise from the riveting guns as the shipyard men worked on a small coastal tanker in the dry dock . |
| 15 | He took off his glasses and put his arms around her waist , and they stood for a while facing one another . |
| 16 | Wright pleaded guilty to all charges , and also admitted obtaining £207,000 from the Halifax Building Society by deception when he applied for a mortgage claiming , falsely , that he did not have one . |
| 17 | Taking advantage of the discretionary powers granted him by the tsar , he asked for a treaty guaranteeing Russia 's right to a protectorate over the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 18 | He lingered for a moment sneering at the guilty red core that was revealed beneath the stucco of lime and sand . |
| 19 | He lay for a moment trying to recover his wind before rising again to his feet . |
| 20 | He smiled for a moment thinking it was a joke ( a slash of the knife at this point ) and then the smile turned to disbelief — ‘ he did n't look disabled ’ — finally he felt embarrassment that he had progressed through such sensational thoughts . |
| 21 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 22 | He stayed for a while reflecting on what Fitzormonde had told him ; first , both Sir Ralph and Mowbray 's murders were connected to that terrible act of betrayal in Cyprus so many years earlier . |
| 23 | He stayed for a while sitting exhaustedly as if loath to take up his burdens again , postponing the moment when he would have to go back to supporting everyone else . |
| 24 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 25 | He stood for a while staring at them . |
| 26 | He stood for a minute looking up at it , Kate unspeaking at his side . |
| 27 | He stood for a moment listening to her standing still on the other side of the door , then heard her footsteps moving slowly away . |
| 28 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 29 | He stood for a moment chewing his lip . |
| 30 | He stood for a moment admiring it . |