Example sentences of "and [adv] for a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will not feel able to leave , and so for a time he will strive to manage alone . |
| 2 | George watched the people rushing about their business and just for a second he wondered what he was doing here . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked some girls to go up on stage and give him a kiss , and just for a joke I did . |
| 4 | and just for a moment they do n't understand you . |
| 5 | She sat up and reached blindly for the clasp of the bra , and just for a moment her breasts swung into view . |
| 6 | There was no sign of him , nor the hire car , and just for a moment her confidence faltered . |
| 7 | Everywhere was pitch-black , and just for a moment she could n't think where she was . |
| 8 | It was n't difficult for Rachel to understand what her sister had seen in this man , and just for a moment she found herself reluctantly acknowledging the fact that if she did n't know what she did about him she too would find him very attractive . |
| 9 | As soon as his arms closed about her , her body nestled into his as though it belonged there , and just for a moment she allowed herself to lay her forehead against his shoulder . |
| 10 | He glanced up and looked at her again and just for a moment it was as if they were alone in the midst of the hubbub of the fairground . |
| 11 | For a moment Hotspur almost believed in her extinction , her relegation to the servant 's role which was the lot of daughters in their parents ' households ; and even for a moment it grieved him to believe in it . |
| 12 | and there for a while we stand |
| 13 | Wexford had come to talk business and yet for a moment he could not . |