Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I looked for only a moment . |
| 2 | yeah , oh well I did for quite a while |
| 3 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 4 | I slept for only a short time each night , and I did not eat much food . |
| 5 | I waited for quite a long time . |
| 6 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 7 | Nothing happens for quite a while , then the rod-tip trembles , so I hold the rod in one hand and the line in the other . |
| 8 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's very thick with the new master , Humphrey Morris , which counts for quite a lot , ’ Bridget said thoughtfully . |
| 10 | And it does so in syntax which calls for quite a feat of structuring and interpreting . |
| 11 | Like the desert after a flash flood , Freshers ' Fair is decorated by societies which bloom for just a day . |
| 12 | The latest move comes at a time when ICI 's £1.2bn a year pharmaceutical division , which accounts for around a fifth of group trading profits , is set to emerge from a relatively fallow period . |
| 13 | It is early days yet and the first division contains only nine teams ( next season the number will be upped to 11 ) which accounts for only a small percentage of Ireland 's playing strength . |
| 14 | But Keebler , the troubled biscuits and snack maker , which accounts for about a third of UB sales , has been caught short by price competition in a recession-stricken US market . |
| 15 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 16 | European turnover was $100m for the year , which accounted for nearly a third of Sequent 's total sales . |
| 17 | Motor vehicles , which accounted for almost a third of the UK trade deficit in 1988 , are closing the gap — thanks partly to the Sunderland factory established by Nissan . |
| 18 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 19 | We think she corroded for only a matter of weeks before being colonised . |
| 20 | She hesitated for barely a moment before nodding her head in affirmation . |
| 21 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |
| 22 | She had for nearly a month washed fanatically , with all the clarity and determination of which five-year-olds are capable . |
| 23 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 24 | Out of the married women sector , who accounted for about a third of abortions in 1980 , about 3% were because of Reason Four . |
| 25 | We walked for quite a long time and covered a good deal of ground . |
| 26 | Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ? |
| 27 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 28 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 29 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 30 | Having completed the steeplechase , I let the horse canter along for about half a kilometre , then I allow him to walk for nearly a whole kilometre , bearing in mind , you will most likely have to ‘ make up time ’ later on . |