Example sentences of "for a [adj] [noun sg] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a loathsome instant I felt her awkward quivering weight on my back as she found her feet , and her voice saying … |
| 2 | For a split second I hesitated , uncertain . |
| 3 | For a long while I thought it did n't matter if I lived or died , but you 've changed all that . |
| 4 | ‘ For a long while I did n't go out that much . |
| 5 | On that day we became friends , yet for a long time I kept my distance , afraid even to shake hands with him . |
| 6 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 7 | For a long time I had it in mind to write a story contrasting the fates of Eck and his British counterpart . |
| 8 | ‘ For a long time I thought I did , ’ she confided softly . |
| 9 | For a long time I thought of him as ‘ my saviour ’ and even — though it was blasphemy — as my Saviour . |
| 10 | For a long time I walked with my eyes on the ground , watching my feet sinking interminably into the snow . |
| 11 | For a long time I assumed she was joking , but not only was I wrong , I was also ignorant of the hard facts of life about the value of students with special needs and the staff who work with them . |
| 12 | I hid it from everyone , ’ he said , when her brows rose in surprise , ‘ and for a long time I hid it from myself . |
| 13 | ‘ For a long time I hated you very much , ’ she said slowly . |
| 14 | For a long time I did not know whether the notes I was accumulating would be published one day , but that did not deter me . |
| 15 | ‘ For a long time I did n't want children , and then I wanted them . |
| 16 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
| 17 | What a racket did I keep and to say truth I would I had been more chary than I was … for a faithless wretch I met with : well , he has a deal to answer for . |
| 18 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 19 | For a quick snack I turned to milk chocolate . |
| 20 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 21 | But he owed me a favour for a little job I 'd done him and I needed somewhere to stash my passport , emergency cash and one or two other goodies . |
| 22 | And when I read it on there for a free gift I thought ooh if I do it myself I 'll get a free gift . |
| 23 | For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course . |
| 24 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 25 | I thought about my dear wife , and for a short time I felt better . |
| 26 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . |
| 27 | For a fleeting moment I saw the face of a young boy , about 15 years old , with a fresh face and golden curls . ’ |
| 28 | For a brief spell I became a Troop Leader , which I enjoyed because the Troop Leader carried the flag , but unlike " Sister Anna " ( who also carried a banner in the song which I was to learn much later ) I had a handsome leather pouch which went over one shoulder . |
| 29 | She totally childish and not something that somebody in the twentieth century should waste their waste , their time with , and for a brief moment I felt the moral force of Sigmund Freud as through his daughter and of course psychologically this makes sense because I 'm quite sure her superego was modelled on her father 's . |
| 30 | That was the brief for a one-person project I took on with the late schools council some four years ago . |