Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] 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 Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C.
10 Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge .
11 Now I work for a local authority so I 've got a big interest in this , but I 've also been involved as John will remember in a strike .
12 HAVING the only large area of concrete within the town boundary , Wallingford 's forecourt has become the ‘ traditional ’ assembly area for all the local activities from scouting to carnival parades and now it seems for a 1920s engine boiler !
13 Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down .
14 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 .
15 Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time .
16 There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears .
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 But it takes no long reflexion to see that , in this case , if the interrogative is acceptable , then it asks for a straightforward manner adverbial or its equivalent as an answer , and it is not directly related to the sentences in ( 33 ) .
20 Then he rested for a few minutes and pushed on again .
21 And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top .
22 ‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’
23 Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline .
24 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 .
25 Yet he passes for a moderate within the fierce revolutionary council , the Dergue .
26 Afterwards I sat for a long time trying to reconcile myself to these new ideas .
27 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 .
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