Example sentences of "i [verb] for a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | And I knelt for a few moments , head buried in my hands . |
2 | I meditated for a few seconds , concentrating on my breathing , immediately aware of how shallow it was . |
3 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
4 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
5 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
6 | If I waited for a hundred years , if I devoted my life to fasting and asceticism and scholarship as the Druids do , still it would make no difference . |
7 | The unusual job I have for a few weeks is to collect unpublished or limited circulation material for whizzkid computer boffins in Oxford to tag and analyse on computers . |
8 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
9 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |