Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ And that 's how it stayed for a long , long time . |
| 5 | And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top . |