Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 2 | Pearce said : ‘ We always planned to try for a drop goal whenever we were in the French 20 metre area . |
| 3 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 4 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 5 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 6 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 7 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 8 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 9 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 10 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 11 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 12 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 13 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 14 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 15 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 16 | He pulled at his Mum 's coat and she stopped talking for a minute . |
| 17 | She pretended to think for a moment . |
| 18 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's time you stopped waving for a minute and listened to me . |
| 20 | Yvonne Harper-Wake , who puts scores of women through her Tums & Bums exercise classes , replied : ‘ Most people phoned hoping for a magic remedy but it does n't exist . |
| 21 | Milwall just caught sleeping for a moment can get a good ball in for here and Hendry it 's an own goal . |
| 22 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 23 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 24 | She seemed to wait for an initiative from her friend . |
| 25 | But they 're not so — ’ The offworlder seemed to search for a word . |
| 26 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 27 | Though a fictional character , Cu Chulainn came to stand for a very real sense of patriotic courage and self-sacrifice . |
| 28 | The American firm Cannondale produces a jacket like this ( though I did n't buy it , as it seemed designed for an American winter ! ) |
| 29 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 30 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |