Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Soviet tank may not be comfortable to ride in compared with a NATO tank , but it is reliable , easy to repair , and built quite deliberately for a particular kind of terrain , support system and warfare . |
| 2 | TWO youngsters cuddled up yesterday for a special ‘ thank you ’ to the man who gave them life . |
| 3 | St Peter walked along silently for a long distance . |
| 4 | It took much longer for a consolidated kingship to emerge in France than it did in Germany after the break-up of the Carolingian empire . |
| 5 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |
| 6 | Takeaway business was brisk and the espresso machine howled and hissed almost constantly for a steady traffic of hard-looking , fast-talking men with tattoos and torn jeans . |
| 7 | The need she had just then for a wild outpouring of physical exertion was stronger than anything else : she wanted to go on , pulling at the rope and screaming with laughter . |
| 8 | In 1939 less than half the population left home even for a single night in the year ; 3 yet during the course of the war there were 60 million changes of address in a civilian population of 38 million . |
| 9 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 10 | Steve Harper , haulage contractor , stood outside alone for a grateful crisp smokeless moment of silence , and when they opened the door to him a strange shadow of the night sidled in with him from prehistory . |
| 11 | He set off cheerfully for a final phase in Worcestershire , saying complacently , ‘ I do n't want any bands here when I come back . ’ |
| 12 | FORMER Beirut hostage Brian Keenan and his beautiful blonde wife , Audrey Doyle , set off today for a secret honeymoon destination . |
| 13 | Eachuinn Odhar stood absolutely still for a long , long breath . |