Example sentences of "[pron] for a [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No — nothing for a day or two . ’ |
| 2 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 3 | I know you get nothing for a tenner but if you spend hundred pound you can |
| 4 | ‘ Sophie said nothing for a minute and then she said : ‘ On a plane to see Lizzie ’ . ’ |
| 5 | He said nothing for a minute or two and told the person next to him that he was having a bad dream when the stranger woke him up . |
| 6 | Wycliffe said nothing for a while but continued with his study of the cheque stubs . |
| 7 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 8 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 9 | I believed her on both counts , especially when she visited me for a weekend and gave me a bottle of ‘ Denim ’ aftershave which she had shoplifted from a Chemist in mid Wales . |
| 10 | She blinked at me for a minute or two and then said , ‘ Aliens ! ’ |
| 11 | He held me for a minute or two , quite tight , kissing and stroking my hair , then we sat down again . |
| 12 | Erm , and actually formalize the assignment , so people will see what you 've got to do , if the others will bear with me for a minute or two . |
| 13 | K : ‘ He took me for a pizza and we got on brilliantly from then . ’ |
| 14 | My father stopped , looked at me for a bit and then said that in the circumstances I could go out that night — providing I milked the cows first . |
| 15 | We had many chats and on several occasions I had him join me for a sandwich and coffee at the Georgia Grill . |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Fitch took Edward and me for a walk and we gathered stones and pebbles . |
| 17 | He asked me for a light and I offered him one of my Gauloises . |
| 18 | Yeah he 's not taking me for a ride or anything . |
| 19 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 20 | ‘ That girl of yours asked me for a statement and I gave her one-more than she bargained for , and I made her take it all down . ’ |
| 21 | Until you know that a certain person is going to be a good language helper , it is best to engage him/her for a day or a week at a time . |
| 22 | We 're gon na stick hold of them for a minute or two because we have n't |
| 23 | Sometimes you could only have them for a day or two before passing them on . |
| 24 | remember them for a day or two but they 'd go cos they do n't mean anything . |
| 25 | However , for a number of these symptoms , more people in residential homes had had them for a year or more : the proportions were 31 per cent against 20 per cent for drowsiness , 22 per cent against 14 per cent for dizziness , 19 per cent against 11 per cent for loss of appetite and 4 per cent against one per cent for bedsores . |
| 26 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 27 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 28 | So watch them for a while and then he started dancing with them and he dance them all night and he just get in his hand . |
| 29 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 30 | He shook our hands , holding them for a moment and laughing softly . |