Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be impossible to draw everyone together for a single meeting but all need to be kept in touch with what 's going on and their opinions sought . |
| 2 | The train set was already chuffing out of the station , so Steven decided to take everyone along for a ride . |
| 3 | I was very new on the wing and someone in for a bad sex offence talked about their crime and I was badly affected . |
| 4 | I just could n't go and get off with someone just for a joke , I could n't do it . |
| 5 | Why do n't you pick on somebody else for a change ? |
| 6 | Put that heater on then would you that one on for a while just before they come . |
| 7 | had this one on for a few days . |
| 8 | Did one yesterday for a man who was due to be executed today , erm , I do n't know whether he was or not , but he probably in a few days time . |
| 9 | To hire one possibly for a specific specific job but |
| 10 | Flags were lowered , tributes flooded in , memorial services were held , culminating in the first one ever for a cricketer at Westminster Abbey . |
| 11 | HOW COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ONE IS FINDING CITY LIFE A TRIFLE TIRESOME , ONE HAS FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO INVITE ONE OUT FOR A DAY IN THE COUNTRY … |
| 12 | It was Hibs and not Rangers who looked as if they were the ones holding something back for a bigger midweek game to come . |
| 13 | Beatrice Webb wrote feelingly that the position of the unmarried daughter at home was ‘ an unhappy one even for a strong woman ’ . |
| 14 | Er , we said something about for a , we do n't want to set a time period on it do we ? |
| 15 | Then he 'd have to go off and do something else for a while before he could stomach being with him again . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's a name I seem to be stuck with , but it really would be nice to be called something else for a change , says actor Nigel Havers , best known for his role in the ITV series of the same name . |
| 17 | But she wished the silly sod would look at somebody or something else for a change . |
| 18 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | I think it might be an excellent idea if you forgot about everything else for a minute and let me hold you . ’ |
| 21 | , we wo n't be dealing with anybody else for a while , I can tell you . |
| 22 | Everybody else for a look through the field glasses , it does n't cost you |
| 23 | In every other respect , the manoeuvres will mimic what would happen during World War III , adding a novel experience for anyone out for a drive on Sunday afternoon during a practice run . |
| 24 | Anyone out for a morning walk on the cliff path would have seen him , a single figure in a wilderness of sea and stone . |
| 25 | When he reached 120 matches in January , Gray had played more first-class games for Wellington than anyone else for a NZ province , in a career which began in 1975–76 . |
| 26 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |
| 27 | On leaving the castle , the dapper-suited President Havel , more at home in sweater and jeans , stood with everyone else for a rendering of the national anthem . |
| 28 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |