Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you think about it for a minute . |
| 2 | So er she says well you can think about it for a fortnight er you see her daddy put out discos altogether because of the lies but she cos she gets nervous because when she 's telling a lie to you she 'll go red |
| 3 | Now and then she lifted an eyeglass up and peered through it for a moment , and , evidently finding it useless at this distance , let it fall again , shaking her head in a frustrated way . |
| 4 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 5 | ‘ Surely I already know what the contents of our contract are — namely , that I am to work for you for a period of eighteen months , after which time you will release me with my debt to you cancelled ? ’ |
| 6 | Easy to get carried away if someone is bidding against you for a particular fish . |
| 7 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 8 | And I want to work with you for a new Kenya . ’ |
| 9 | Christine let him stew in it for a few moments . |
| 10 | Crowding round him for a share are , from left to right , Rousseau , Poupee and Héra ( her tiny son Hector just visible on her belly ) . |
| 11 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 12 | He knelt over her for a moment , tough and handsome in the candlelight , his eyes triumphant with the knowledge of desire on the verge of fulfilment , possessing her as only he could , then he was bending , lifting her into his arms , carrying her across the room , and she felt the sudden chill as the door opened and , wedging it awkwardly with his foot , he bundled her through it . |
| 13 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 14 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 15 | Typical of the kind of pain Dustin would put himself through , in order to get ‘ inside ’ a character , was the way in which he developed Ratso 's limp by placing stones in one shoe and then walking on them for a day . |
| 16 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 17 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 18 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 19 | Nancy moved among them for a while , making them welcome , peering into their pale faces with the object of discovering which were her grandchildren . |
| 20 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 21 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 22 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 23 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 24 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 25 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 26 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 27 | She wandered around it for a minute until she realized it was odd there were no sounds from him . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't think of anything for a good few hours , ’ he admitted throatily . |
| 29 | I would n't even think of it for a minute if it was n't best for everybody . |
| 30 | He came from Cambridge , and I have n't heard of her for a number of years . |