Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 2 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 6 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 7 | I feel much better when I 'm back on the platform , and I sit down for a breather . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 10 | ‘ I put in for a supplementary allocation only last week , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Halfway through a morning 's work , I climb down for a coffee . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 'm going to stay there for a bit while I look round for a place . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I hang around for a bit , pretending to look at some writing on the board . |
| 16 | ‘ All right if I drop in for a drink this evening ? ’ he said . |
| 17 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 18 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 19 | I set out for an appointment in Sunderland on the day of its launch , full of hope as York station 's displays indicated the 11.34 InterCity to Newcastle was running ten minutes late . |
| 20 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 21 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |
| 22 | I ask only for a heart as constant |
| 23 | While I go up for a bath you can take stock of the supplies I brought . ’ |
| 24 | Once a month I go out for a serious session — the last of which was a hard circuit of Radnor Forest , but I enjoyed it tremendously . ’ |
| 25 | First time I go out for a week and I 'm on tablets ! |
| 26 | you have a sweet and all that sort of thing , I mean you ca n't I ca n't resist them if I go out for a meal , I 've got to have the sweet , I 'd rather have the sweet |
| 27 | Yeah if they if their churning out the stock that tu tend to churn out , I mean I go along for an enquiry for a few and find they 've got thousands in stock . |
| 28 | ‘ I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know . |
| 29 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 30 | Having asked the question , he offered no personal answer : ‘ Like jesting Pilate , I stay not for an answer : though the question awaits our collective resolution ’ . |