Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 2 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 3 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 5 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 6 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 7 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 8 | Well first of all I suppose one should say that we do n't just use one computer , we , like lots of other libraries , have got access to a large number of computers , and indeed you 'll find these computers being used elsewhere for the same sort of way . |
| 9 | Well , first of all I suppose one should say that we do n't just use one computer , we , like lots of other libraries , have got access to a large number of computers , and indeed you 'll find these computers being used elsewhere for the same sort of work . |
| 10 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 11 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 12 | But please remember what Doctor Barton has pointed out — you are not being judged twice for the same crime . |
| 13 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 14 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 15 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 17 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 18 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 19 | I have never had much stomach for fighting and I certainly did not relish the prospect of having my head knocked off for a few cigarettes ! |
| 20 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 21 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 22 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 23 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 24 | This was the new name of a group which had already existed informally for a few years , with a number of representatives from well-known " reforming " Edinburgh families on its committee : the McLarens , Mairs and Stevensons for instance . |
| 25 | Then the funeral was held up for a few days , and we soon realised that the effect was indeed cosmetic and nothing more . |
| 26 | On top of that , French banks were paid twice for the same service , first by French traders as a result of the Helsinki agreement and , second , by foreign banks ( those that the drawers of Eurocheques banked with ) as a result of the Eurocheque system exempted by the Commission in 1984 . |