Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I asked for a transfer , but could n't get one , so I stayed and now I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 2 | so I managed for a few weeks and then I went to lodge with my sister at Trimley |
| 3 | Anyway , er so I thought for a , I 've had a large of the press today which is , it 's a very tense case indeed . |
| 4 | So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’ |
| 5 | Impatiently she reached for a tissue and wiped it off . |
| 6 | So you look for a conductor |
| 7 | We 'd have got here sooner only we stopped for a bite of something . |
| 8 | So we went for a last look round . |
| 9 | So we went for a shellac finish . |
| 10 | And we know that he was left this red chest of Flanders so we sought for a Flanders chest , that 's a chest probably actually made in North Germany but imported through Flanders and we found a Yorkshire example in a place called near Ripon . |
| 11 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 12 | You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty . |
| 13 | Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two |
| 14 | The little Hoflin did n't fall over and looked extremely pretty , and when the curtain came down he leaned for a moment on the rostrum and took a deep breath . |
| 15 | Perhaps it made for a safer relationship if , instead of arguing to a standstill , the party who felt herself misunderstood took her grievance elsewhere and satiated it in transgression . |
| 16 | If he 's not there , perhaps he went for a walk in the grounds ? ’ |
| 17 | If only it holds for a while . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know whether Mr Palmer read my thoughts — but it was a tight hole and there was a need for accuracy — but sure enough he opted for a 1-iron . |
| 19 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 20 | Hunt 's steadily deflating tyre held up until the last corner before the pits ; in he came for a tyre change . |
| 21 | The magic wears off , and Swift advises women that they have only themselves to blame for a husband 's loss of enthusiasm if they do not keep themselves clean : |
| 22 | the very next day anyway I sent for a doctor |
| 23 | Normally I ask for an appointment , but I happened to be passing and saw the lights — and the chopper . |
| 24 | The tenant should also ensure that this covenant contains a provision that the lease being granted to the guarantor does not itself provide for a new guarantor to be joined . |
| 25 | Desperately she sought for an excuse , anything not to have to face his mother 's frosty manner again , but before she could think of anything he said , ‘ On second thoughts , I have a better idea . ’ |
| 26 | Finally we asked for a change in the wording of supplementary benefit law which would abolish the term ‘ cohabitation ’ , with its sexual connotations , and substitute what seemed the more decent and objective phrase , ‘ living together as husband and wife ’ . |
| 27 | Topper was not one to strive for an imaginative simile when a well-used one came to hand . |
| 28 | Desperately he looked for a way up the river bank . |
| 29 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 30 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |