Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand the definition of a bar is somewhere used principally for the consumption of alcoholic beverages . |
| 2 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 3 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 4 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 6 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 7 | The Channel Tunnel is to be built using the grand Chantier , or large scale works , procedure hitherto used only for the construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 8 | The Instruction ( Nakaz ) which Catherine personally drew up for the guidance of the deputies who made up this Commission was a conflation of ideas drawn , with little alteration , from West European writers , particularly Montesquieu and Beccaria . |
| 9 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 10 | ‘ How can she have deteriorated so seriously in such a short time , when she only came here for a check-up ? ’ |
| 11 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 12 | The welcome he received on the factory tour obviously boded well for the by-election as ten days later both candidates were elected . |
| 13 | I only worked there for about two months , I was so tired I was like a zombie . |
| 14 | we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone |
| 15 | You see when Jane Pargeter told me , I suddenly looked round for Nicola at the party . |
| 16 | Schools in the sample were asked to provide pupils with scissors for this test , but it was clear that not all did so for in some classes no one used scissors . |
| 17 | It was all-embracing and claimed that it alone spoke authoritatively for the people . |
| 18 | Only spoke up for the girl . ’ |
| 19 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 20 | He only stayed on for me . |
| 21 | His kisses were deep and cherishing and hungry , and it was a long time before they eventually came up for air . |
| 22 | First , Lord Grade sold ATV to the Australian financier Robert Holmes à Court ; second , the 49 per cent of ‘ Midlands ’ shares were bought by D C Thomson ( who thus made up for losing Southern ) , the betting company Ladbrokes and the printing and publishing interests of Robert Maxwell . |
| 23 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 24 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 25 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 26 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 27 | When the cold engine that was the city had coughed and kicked and finally started up for the day , then she 'd set out about her business . |
| 28 | She said oh no I just rang up for a chat . |
| 29 | At the er and they have a band on that night that I just called on for the |
| 30 | It finally worked out for me . |