Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] for a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 2 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 3 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
| 4 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 5 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 6 | I 'm not asking for a few soothing words to calm my conscience ; if I can , I want to help . |
| 7 | I 'm just visiting for a few days . ’ |
| 8 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
| 9 | Erm , then we all just worked at getting pieces out on paper , all that was going fine , and then I assigned two more people to stick all the pieces together and trying to create sentences from it , and I think the only time that I , we lost it was like , right at the end we were like looking for a few words to make our sentences make sense . |
| 10 | Normally , each hair follicle goes through a resting phase ( telogen ) every few years : hair stops growing , falls out and is n't replaced for a few months . |
| 11 | Central Office tried to keep the local parties alive , for the party truce was only renewed for a few months at a time and parliament was prolonged beyond its five-year term only for a few months at a time too . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 13 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 14 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |