Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart froze for a second , as if I had put on an elaborate disguise and suddenly been addressed by name — I did n't feel safe any more . |
| 2 | My stomach did for a while , as it did not like the vapours given out by the hops in the borough market after the sea air it had been used to in Hastings , but one can not live on sea air . |
| 3 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 4 | When I asked Mrs Zamzam what her sons did for a living , a young man interrupted to say that they all worked ‘ for the revolution ’ . |
| 5 | Benjamin 's parent 's home was created by Richard Sylbert on a sound stage , but the underwater sequences , which Dustin practised for a week , were shot in a real outside pool with a glass wall for photographic purposes . |
| 6 | Her eyes flickered for a split-second to see Lucenzo 's reaction . |
| 7 | Just on half time number eight Hastings scored a push-over try which McGarry converted for a 17–0 lead . |
| 8 | But by the morning of the fifth day , rider and horse became a team , and by that afternoon Artemis and her teacher went for a stiff ten-mile hack . |
| 9 | Furious Saints fans ran on to the pitch in anger just before the final whistle as their team headed for a 2–1 defeat by QPR . |
| 10 | It seemed to fill her plumage with its cold light as her body shivered for a moment , her head trembled and her eyes , which had been half closed , slowly opened . |
| 11 | Her father thought for a moment . |
| 12 | When her father reached for a cigarette , Miranda intercepted his hand as it searched for his lighter , and touched the flame to the tip to make contact with him . |
| 13 | The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . , |
| 14 | Her dog sniffed for a moment at the ankle of the young man who worked at the engine of his car . |
| 15 | Her voice faltered for a moment , then she went on more strongly , ‘ Elise died in an accident . |
| 16 | Instinctively her hand reached for a light switch . |
| 17 | Lloyd 's List later cited a deal whereby the Pacific Valour was to shift a cargo of 240,000 tonnes from the Gulf to Japan at W37 , apparently a fairly durable rate , as the same publication reported W37-40 as the range over which discussion occurred for a voyage from Kharg to Japan in 1984 . |
| 18 | In his first policy statement as President , Nujoma on March 21 promised to redress the distortions of the apartheid economy , and appeared to assuage fears of the white minority and potential Western aid donors by rejecting the idea of large-scale nationalization , which SWAPO had for a long time held to be a cornerstone of its Marxist ideology . |
| 19 | Why was Mrs Thatcher upset when her son went for a drive in 1982 ? |
| 20 | We may now turn to Figures 3 and 4 , which are the actual stress distribution maps which John computed for a crack 2 microns long and 1 Ångström tip radius . |
| 21 | The 27-year-old who played for Hull City , his home town club , and Walsall before joining Barnsley will link up in attack with Lenny Johnrose , who Murray signed for a then-record £50,000 from Blackburn Rovers last month . |
| 22 | Once they had filled the trolley and checked off everything on their list Stuart and his Mum looked for a checkout that was n't busy . |
| 23 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 24 | He glanced sideways at her , and as his eyes lingered for a moment on her form , she realised with horror that she was n't wearing a bra . |
| 25 | His eyes flickered for a second to the rear view mirror . |
| 26 | His Superintendent asked for a priest to go to the island of Molokai where a colony of lepers lived in appalling conditions . |
| 27 | His lips hovered for a moment above hers and then he was kissing her , his mouth hot against hers . |
| 28 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 29 | His voice died for a moment . |
| 30 | And erm , it wa , at the reception afterwards we actually paid him the fine er , a contribution to a a , a fund his church had for a painting they wanted to buy . |