Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for a [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I go and wait about for a min , half a sec , ha , you know just wait for about ten seconds I 've forgotten what I 'm supposed to say wha , can you remind you ? |
| 2 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 3 | Whe , when we went to the one in Twickenham , James really like it sort of go out for a ni Indian meal and stuff . |
| 4 | Actually I might put down for a s . |
| 5 | Like her mum , she 's sent off for a cat catalogue , she got it , you know within thirteen days I think it was . |