Example sentences of "[pron] for a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I careered down the snow-slope below and sat in the shelter of a boulder to watch Roger abseil down the ice pitch , coiled the ropes and climb carefully down to join me for a marvellously welcome brew under the Shelter Stone . |
| 2 | Then Lorne gazed at me for a very long time , in ripe candour . |
| 3 | Lorne gazed at me for a very long time again . |
| 4 | So let me lay before you my own ideas , most of which have come from the practical application of regression therapy with a wide variety of patients who came to consult me for an even wider variety of reasons . |
| 5 | ‘ Where the occupier of premises agrees for reward that a person shall have the right to enter and use them for a mutually contemplated purpose , the contract between the parties ( unless it provides to the contrary ) contains an implied warranty that the premises are as safe for that purpose as reasonable care and skill on the part of anyone can make them . ’ |
| 6 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 7 | Not if you plan to soak them for a very large fee . |
| 8 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 9 | You may then decide that either you do not need to interview anyone at all because no job exists or that you need to interview someone for a quite different role , perhaps involving taking on various responsibilities of other employees which together form a more rational and cohesive whole . |
| 10 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 11 | Nobody for a very long time afterwards felt the need to change things . |
| 12 | There are first of all those colleagues who for a very long time have consistently held to the view that Britain should not be a part of the Common Market . |
| 13 | This way , Dad and I get you for a little longer . |
| 14 | made me laugh cos we 'd gone up to house tonight , he said he was making a real effort to be good and to and he , when he got up to house today he goes I was doing a really gentlemanly thing and saying oh thank you for a really nice evening , I started laughing well what was I supposed to ? |
| 15 | I have been a friend of your wonderful Rabbi and of many of you for a very long time . |
| 16 | Thank you for a very clear and helpful presentation to the Departmental Seminar . |
| 17 | Thank you very much and thank you for a very well . |
| 18 | BRITAIN must brace itself for an even more violent wave of IRA attacks , RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley warned last night . |
| 19 | The trouble is , I want everything for a very long time — forever . ’ |
| 20 | No we 're still on A really , we have n't got one for A yet . |
| 21 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 22 | The scheme is one for an imaginatively landscaped , artificial but natural-looking , additional channel to parallel the Thames . |
| 23 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 24 | ‘ Will anywhere be open this late on Christmas Eve ? ’ she prevaricated , although her heart had leapt instantly at the thought of being with him for a little longer . |
| 25 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 26 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 27 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |
| 28 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 29 | The clever Ephron has taken him for a very long ride indeed . |
| 30 | In September 1316 Edward retained him for a very large fee in return for the promise of his service with a commensurately large retinue ; and shortly afterwards he and Pembroke set off for the papal curia on a mission which had the repeal of the Ordinances as one of its objectives . |