Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But United embarked on what Mr Ferguson dubbed ‘ kamikaze football ’ against City and ended up hanging on desperately for a point . |
| 2 | — Sit down again for a minute . |
| 3 | ‘ Sit down again for a while . ’ |
| 4 | Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived . |
| 5 | John Gorman says … he 's happy but in some ways disappointed that they 've had to wait so long for a win … it 's been hard week after week … but they 've shown great character and the fans have been very supportive |
| 6 | This goes down well for a while , until the ‘ MC ’ puppet finally orders them to ‘ kindly leave the stage ’ or to be quiet . |
| 7 | Generally , it is best to send out a strong opener , that is someone who can be relied upon to go all out for a victory . |
| 8 | She came back to the north with him after that and they lived together again for a time . |
| 9 | He felt only sorry for him and sure that , if they could stay alone together for a while , Fiver would come round to an easier state of mind . |
| 10 | Yeah yes the we went to we used to go down there for a day to Skeggie . |
| 11 | ‘ Can you hang on here for a few moments ? ’ |
| 12 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 13 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 14 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 15 | Her yellow nail traced once more for a stranger 's benefit the blank faces , wide staring eyes of the previous generation of Dersinghams . |
| 16 | For instance , observer bias would have occurred in our study if the endoscopist has looked more intensely for a hiatal hernia after noting that oesophagitis was present . |
| 17 | If Somerset should opt once more for a batsman , my instinct tells me the favourite would be Richie Richardson . |
| 18 | So , I 'm fed up I want to go to Malita And then we get , they 'll call in and say you have n't come up there for a week ! |
| 19 | ‘ We can wait out here for a bit , ca n't we ? ’ he asked . |
| 20 | It is commonplace for me to step outside the door in the morning intending to do one particular task , and then to come back in for a lunchtime bowl of soup having done three or four entirely different jobs of maintenance or repair . |
| 21 | However , despite the small class and the specialist attention he was still considered far behind for a 7 year old . |
| 22 | He giggled : ‘ We ought to creep out singly for an assignation . ’ |
| 23 | There was a plop as it landed in the water , then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down . |
| 24 | No pressure group can wait around forever for a change of government that may never come . |
| 25 | A Soviet tank may not be comfortable to ride in compared with a NATO tank , but it is reliable , easy to repair , and built quite deliberately for a particular kind of terrain , support system and warfare . |
| 26 | Susan bent forward slightly for a better view and saw what it was . |
| 27 | Well I mean I 've looked round here for a pair of blinking shoes , the only trouble here er had over here is that I 've got to go somewhere where they 're wide enough and that 's |
| 28 | Your eventual goal is to be able to work very hard for a full three minutes , followed after a one-minute active break by a second three-minute workout . |
| 29 | You should be prepared to work very hard for a pittance . |
| 30 | Riding a bike is a suitable analogy : if you have been pedalling very hard for a while you can stop pedalling and freewheel for a short distance without losing any speed . |