Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 2 | Last autumn a conference in Toronto brought them together for an update and planning meeting . |
| 3 | It was a room no-one ever came into , except the dead woman 's husband , who visited it religiously every Sunday morning before Mass , locking himself in for an hour , while , Ellie guessed , he dusted and tidied the shrine he had created , and prayed for the soul of the one departed . |
| 4 | ‘ You do n't mind ? ’ she asked , thinking it more than good of him to use his morning squiring her around , without him letting himself in for an afternoon of more of the same ! |
| 5 | The bunkers ate into the fairway at around the 240-yard mark to cool the aggressive ardour of the professional golfer who might try to cut the slight dogleg and set himself up for an easier shot into the two-tier green . |
| 6 | ( ‘ Are you here for an affair , sir ? ’ ) |
| 7 | You here for an interview or something ? ’ |
| 8 | She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee . |
| 9 | well I thought well if it checks me another six months at least when they say have you got any experience , but as I say I 'm still in touch with Mencap and I 'm still in touch with mine and I 've also er put in for , what they call them mobility insistence for the Princess Marina which again an education and you just go in and be , be a friend to somebody and you take them out for an hour , er a couple of hours , you , and you 're paid five pounds eighty for a two hour session |
| 10 | I usually work him in for an hour , but when I 'm riding him around in the arena before the bell goes , I 'm still thinking , ‘ How on earth am I going to get this thing up the centre line ? ’ because he 's gawping at everything , but then I give him a jolly good boot and we get on with it … ’ |
| 11 | Wharton has a big-money fight with Sheffield 's Fidel Castro , formerly Slugger O'Toole , with his title and Castro 's British title on the line , after producing awesome punching that cut Carr , put him down for an eight count and forced referee Dave Parris step in after 2min 7sec . |
| 12 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 13 | He advanced on him only for an exquisite googly to dip and dart through the gap to bruise the off stump . |
| 14 | For instance , If you are talking to a neighbour and he or she seems in no particular rush , then invite him or her in for an impromptu cup of something . |
| 15 | She looked alert and approachable , just the type of person we were looking for , so we asked her in for an interview . ’ |
| 16 | Originally , Geoff Huffer , Ile De Nisky 's trainer , felt his colt was immature and was going to give him just one more run before putting him away for an ambitious campaign next year . |
| 17 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 18 | Even then fitness-fanatic Mr Bush is likely to drag him out for an early morning swim . |
| 19 | Two o'clock and I always used to leave work and take him out for an hour . |
| 20 | But he 's even becoming a complete , in the holidays when I 've got the housework to do and meals to cook , and him to look after if there 's another pair of hands that can take him out for an hour |
| 21 | ‘ Take her out for an hour or so , ’ he urged . |
| 22 | He greeted her , his eyes falling on her again for an instant and then skittering away . |
| 23 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 24 | Blanche told the press officer to invite him round for an ‘ off the record ’ briefing . |
| 25 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 26 | She got , and hated , a job in a fruit pulpers in Covent Garden , and would drop in at lunchtimes , and one day , in the absence of anyone else competent to run the switchboard , she took it over for an hour . |
| 27 | Now I find if you put it aside for an hour or two and do something else you can already come to it fresh . |
| 28 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 29 | We 've spent months of shelving and then in the end he just says oh sod it , just took it out for an eight one six then . |
| 30 | ‘ Look , there 's the holes where it was unscrewed before they brought it here for an altar . |