Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out .
2 Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’
3 She was n't going to give him the satisfaction of knowing she dared not be alone with him for even a few minutes .
4 The King had settled himself into such a groove of petulant determination that there was no question of the rejection of the bargain deflecting him for even a few days .
5 You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible .
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