Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] for a " in BNC.

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1 And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over .
2 concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ?
3 A psychological astronomer , I calculated its apogee at approximately 2 to 3 o'clock , unless of course I stopped for a drink .
4 Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier .
5 Tension between Iraq and Kuwait came to the world 's attention in mid-July when Saddam Hussein launched a fierce attack on the policy of those Gulf states , principally Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , whose over-production of oil he blamed for a corresponding slump in world oil prices .
6 The amount of time it takes for a lizard to turn into a bird ; love
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