Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for a [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 2 | Theoretically , the Council should have been a cross-section of the people socially ( as we have seen it was geographically ) : its members were appointed by lot , they served only for a year at a time , so that the Councillors should not have felt themselves to be a cohesive hereditary body like the old Areopagus or the ( semi-hereditary ) Roman Senate , and they could not serve more than twice in their lives . |
| 3 | The couple , who want to remain anonymous but live near Darlington , signed up for a unit at Sutton Hall , near Thirsk , last June . |
| 4 | Paddy looked down for a moment at Joey , who beamed up at him , ‘ We gon na play checkers , Paddy ? ’ he called out suddenly and laughed . |
| 5 | As soon as it was light , I crept out of the room and went downstairs for a coffee at a nearby café . |
| 6 | I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me . |
| 7 | He looked back for a moment at the Minister 's procession stalled at the roadblock . |
| 8 | His eyes lit up for a moment at that . |
| 9 | Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself |
| 10 | She thought and worked and grieved only for a day at a time . |
| 11 | The 50-year-old child killer suffered a black eye , bruises and minor cuts as she sat down for a meal at Cookham Wood jail in Kent . |