Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.

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1 Liverpool City Council 's leisure services department believe more than 30,000 people turned out for a thrilling 20-minute extravaganza .
2 At the end of the day 550 people sat down for a superb dinner in the marquee , prepared by and his team , where the trophies and prizes from the Grand Draw were presented , followed by a disco .
3 Recurrent stones in five of the nine patients followed up for a median of 14 months are believed to have developed from residual fragments .
4 It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse .
5 Having escaped from their field , two goats wandered around for a while until they found themselves in a rubbish dump .
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