Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever .
2 There are also two cardboard peepshows from c1850 , which seem to show a tunnel going on for ever .
3 I mean the I mean , like , I mean , people say it that a personality makes up for like , looks or whatever , and with hi , he 's the only person I 've ever met where it really really does !
4 The pro-English party must have realised , however , that neither they nor their masters in London were in a position to hold out for long .
5 Cork hit the post in a desperate finish , but Quakers were caught on the break with only two minutes left when Warren Joyce broke down the right and crossed perfectly for the unmarked Jepson , who only minutes before had a goal ruled out for offside , to grab his second from close range .
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