Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 10 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 11 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |
| 12 | I ask only for a heart as constant |
| 13 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 14 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 15 | There 's a sort of metal fence I can sit on , so I rest there for a bit and watch the ducks and that . |
| 16 | I rummage furiously for a freebie hotel mini-shampoo bottle with a screw-on lid the size of a marble . |
| 17 | The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa . |
| 18 | In all resorts we reserve places for non-windsurfing friends , who pay only for a shore holiday . |
| 19 | Jim will walk with his arm round Anna 's waist , and they tend to vanish if you turn away for a moment . |
| 20 | He was the person when you go away for a vacation , that you leave the key to your flat with , that you say ‘ would you water my geranium ’ . |
| 21 | He was the person , when you go away for a vacation , that you leave the key to your flat with , that you say would you water my geranium ; that is the historical sum of William Shakespeare , it 's the truth . |
| 22 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |
| 23 | You work here for an hour at either end of the day , sleep in this funny little store place I 've found you and during the day you can try and find something more normal . |
| 24 | As in the UK , researchers who need more for a specific project can also go to funding agencies which can be public , such as the German Research Society ( Deutsche Forschungs gemeinschaft or DFG ) , or private — the Volkswagen research fund is the biggest of these . |
| 25 | He relaxed with a happy grunt , and we lay peacefully for a bit longer . |
| 26 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 27 | We stand there for a second or two . |
| 28 | ‘ We go abroad for a week or ten days every year , but I think we have a very simple life compared with many . |
| 29 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 30 | At youth level we have also for a number of years sponsored the Scottish Schools National Swimming Championships and the Scottish Schools Badminton Union Competitions . |