Example sentences of "[pron] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was there on my own , because the Yorkshire Television film crew had been positioned on the roof of the Palace , and would have been quite at a loss but a lady from the Yorkshire Post spotted me and kindly accompanied me for a little while . |
| 32 | The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while . |
| 33 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
| 34 | Dare I repeat a story I 've told before about a friend , an unscrupulous bloke , canvassing with me for a local election in Wandsworth ? |
| 35 | What I saw that morning could spoil me for a sexual relationship forever . |
| 36 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 37 | The kitchen window was still open and I climbed in after crushing another handful of lavender with the intention of taking it to bed with me for an invigorating sleep , if such a thing is possible . |
| 38 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 39 | ( Phoebe ) Bradley became the first lady to serve on the Club Committee , an event doubly unique , for although not a bondholder she was elected by their Committee to represent them for a four-year term . |
| 40 | We 've tried to love both dogs equally , and simply separate them for a cooling-off period after a fight , rather than telling them off in any way . |
| 41 | Voluntary Severance that staff will have individual voluntary Severance options made available to them for a limited period . |
| 42 | After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them . |
| 43 | Finally , I read yesterday that some managers , most noticably the two Scots that were in Wembley at the weekend , are talking about banning transfers after the season start and only allowing them for a limited period over Christmas . |
| 44 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 45 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 46 | Once the girls are at playgroup , Faith spends the rest of the morning catching up on chores before collecting them for a leisurely lunch . |
| 47 | The girls join them for a final splash in the pool . |
| 48 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 49 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 50 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 51 | She looked at them for a long time . |
| 52 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 53 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 54 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 55 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 57 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 58 | But I do n't think people , some people like you to chat with them for a long time , other people they just like you to serve the , so they can go . |
| 59 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
| 60 | I hope that he learns them well , because he will need to deploy them for a long time . |