Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least let me stay here for a while until I get my head clear . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 3 | It was they who inspired me to struggle incessantly for a better world . |
| 4 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 5 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 6 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 7 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 8 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 9 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 10 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 11 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 12 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 13 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 14 | ‘ May I stay here for a pot of tea ? ’ |
| 15 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 16 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 17 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 18 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 19 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 20 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 21 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 22 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 23 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |
| 24 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 25 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 26 | I ask only for a heart as constant |
| 27 | I looked everywhere for a weapon . |
| 28 | I looked especially for a Peugeot 505 . |
| 29 | I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me . |
| 30 | Nothing much was doing , though , and eventually I went home for a bite to eat and a well-deserved kip . |