Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] 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 | We 'd have got here sooner only we stopped for a bite of something . |
7 | So we went for a last look round . |
8 | So we went for a shellac finish . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | If he 's not there , perhaps he went for a walk in the grounds ? ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Hunt 's steadily deflating tyre held up until the last corner before the pits ; in he came for a tyre change . |
17 | the very next day anyway I sent for a doctor |
18 | 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 ’ . |
19 | Desperately he looked for a way up the river bank . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
22 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
23 | Time and again Lear tried to tempt Gould to visit him in Rome ; always he pleaded for a letter : ‘ I am anxious to hear from you … ; |
24 | Eventually we settled for a base at Ardrossan which was not too bad in later years when we had acquired much faster cutters . |
25 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
26 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
27 | The bubbling song of whimbrel mingled with the excited yelping of breeding redshank could be heard whenever we stopped for a break . |
28 | Two days later he called for a purge of FIS ranks ; only those " who believed in the new era for the country and in others ' right of expression " should be retained . |
29 | Half way up he rested for a minute or so to rest his straining arm and shoulder muscles , then continued his exhausting climb . |
30 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |