Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 2 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 3 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 4 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 5 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 6 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 7 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 8 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
| 9 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ Originally we went for an American-style back-end load or exit charge which was tapered to reduce by a percentage point for each year an investment was held . |
| 11 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 12 | True , his critics would rather he settled for an easier life . |
| 13 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 14 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 15 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 16 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 17 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 18 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 19 | Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again . |
| 20 | And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top . |
| 21 | Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline . |
| 22 | Instead he called for a new security order based either on " trilateral Soviet-Japanese-US consultations and concrete agreements " , or a five-power conference involving China , India , Japan , the Soviet Union and the USA . |
| 23 | Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas . |
| 24 | He did n't answer and shortly afterwards he slowed for a right-hand bend , his body bent forward , the dummy hand clamped tight on the steering wheel . |