Example sentences of "[vb past] for [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visuals are very important in terms of information recall I modelled for this a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | They just sit there mesmerized for half an hour and then |
| 3 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 4 | But even if the Verulamium defences were post-Hadrianic , it may not have been the same operation which provided for such an in-significant place as Great Casterton . |
| 5 | We stopped for half an hour in Reading to wait for a connection . ’ |
| 6 | Sultry singer N' Dea added : ‘ We played for half an hour , jumped in our van and got out fast . ’ |
| 7 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 8 | Nothing happened for half an hour so I asked where the nearest Young Women 's Christian Association hostel was . |
| 9 | Polypropylene has replaced nylon in this range and no standard recipes existed for such a blend . |
| 10 | Throughout the academic year she campaigned for such an appointment to be made until the local authority provided additional money for this post to be advertised . |
| 11 | Alongside and beneath the alley , Mucky Beck rushed for half a mile past walled mill-ponds , wasteland and cinder piles all the way from Shearbridge Road to Cheshum Street . |
| 12 | They talked for half an hour and suddenly upped and went . |
| 13 | We gossiped for half an hour in the office and then walked up to the United Universities Club and had lunch . |
| 14 | Most recently , the Cadbury Committee said that it was not persuaded by those who called for such a limitation . |
| 15 | In terms of prospecting , I usually do the training exhibition at the N E C every July , er , in eighty six , a man came onto my stand and we chatted for half an hour , he then said to tell you the truth I 'm not interested now , but I will be interested next May . |
| 16 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 17 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 18 | They will be worse for frail , elderly people , for physically and mentally disabled people , and I think people will also be asking the Tory and Liberal Democrat groups why they went for half a million pounds less than they need have done in service provision . |
| 19 | Reconstruction meant for many a potential realisation of hopes for better housing , education and health . |
| 20 | Nicholson looked squarely into the chubby man 's eyes , scarcely able to disguise the contempt he felt for such a soft , weak handshake . |
| 21 | The want felt for such an organization for the promotion of their intellectual , social , moral , temporal and spiritual welfare is very great ; there is a wide field of usefulness for the proposed union . |
| 22 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 23 | If you like a challenge — and the chance of a £5,000 prize to boot — The Key To The Kingdom ( Pavilion Books , £12.99 ) will keep you occupied for many an hour . |
| 24 | A trade-union organizer from mid-Wales spoke for many an onlooker that day . |
| 25 | The sauce , a mixture of many ingredients , was poured over the snails and the whole simmered for half an house . |
| 26 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 27 | The fireball that came with the flash lasted for half a second and enveloped the whole stumbling figure . |
| 28 | This visits period lasted for half a term , although for some subject departments it was completed during four weeks . |
| 29 | This lasted for half an hour ; however , thick fog and bad bumps kept throwing them off course . |
| 30 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |