Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | So now he worked for a taxi firm . |
| 32 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 33 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 34 | A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two . |
| 35 | I was , I was off on , on Sunday , I mean I 've joined yet another marriage agency , off on last Sunday to Latherham , with another nice old chap , you know , erm , I , I go out with erm , women friends , we , I 've arranged , er there 's one very , very good place that does lunches , run by a couple of homosexuals and erm , old age pensioners on Tuesday get , get a lunch , an eight pound lunch , for four pounds , so four friends , three friends and myself are going for a special Christmas lunch that they do , fortnight ago we went for a lunch with the group of the town 's women 's guild and friends , erm , my women 's group that I belong to over at the village of which is run by the television actress er Helen Fraser |
| 36 | Are n't we booked for a game of croquet ? |
| 37 | Here they stood for a moment , looking round . |
| 38 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 39 | ‘ I gave him half an hour and then I went for a spin . ’ |
| 40 | Then I went for a walk with Mr Sargent . ’ |
| 41 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
| 42 | I listened at length to her story , then I talked for a moment about the unshakeable fact of the resurrection , about the city where God will wipe away every tear . |
| 43 | How I longed for a Smith & Wesson . |
| 44 | actually it 's a bit boring down there now but they , they had to put my , my explanation of the price of petrol er down , there 's nowhere to thing , cos th the last time I was down there I asked for a pint of bitter and this guy bought it me and said and I wanted two pound thirty or something . |
| 45 | Alison Berry describes how she cared for a patient with a difficult leg wound in the community |
| 46 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 47 | Then she went for a walk . |
| 48 | Then she thought for a moment . |
| 49 | Her output was not impressive but at least she succeeded for a couple of hours in driving the memory of Sybil 's murder into the back of her mind . |
| 50 | There she stood for a long time , gazing out to sea , her heart full of sadness and her eyes full of tears . |
| 51 | Then we went for a walk out in the garden . |
| 52 | And then we paid for a winter clean . |
| 53 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 54 | There we halted for a moment , lying down in the craters , almost in peace . |
| 55 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 56 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 57 | There they stayed for a generation of misery . |
| 58 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |
| 59 | Sometimes he longed for a posting just to see different surroundings . |
| 60 | Then he paused for a moment . |