Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun sg] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ever this ended , I thought , I would n't go walking in woodland for a very long time . |
| 2 | ‘ If I read you rightly , ’ said Radulfus , having searched Cadfael 's face , and found it in very grave earnest , ‘ you are saying that the young man was attacked in mistake for a Benedictine brother . ’ |
| 3 | Her voice deepened in intensity for a moment , then became reflective . |
| 4 | Sarella lay fuming in bed for a few minutes before flinging back the duvet and running to the window . |
| 5 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
| 6 | Fortunately , the snow was cleared and the airport re-opened in time for a Monday morning flight back to London . |
| 7 | Frozen in shock for a few seconds , she recovered her wits sufficiently to let out an outraged scream , and to catapult into a kneeling position , grabbing the bedspread to cover herself . |
| 8 | Programmes are booked in advance for a particular room at a particular time and are then " broadcast " into that room as prearranged . |
| 9 | Plants that do need sunlight may survive in shade for a while , directing their energies to growing rapidly towards the light essential for their flowering and seed production . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd been remanded to appear in court for a driving offence , ’ Fairham said . |
| 11 | ‘ Having regard to the terms of the contract , the conduct of the parties and the circumstances of the case , I have no doubt that the property was not intended to pass in this case on contract but only in exchange for a valid building society cheque , but even if it may be regarded as intended to pass in exchange for a false , but believed genuine , building society cheque it will not in my view avail the insurers . ’ |
| 12 | They are generally operated on a fixed cycle , so that , when a known volume of water has passed through the plant , a valve is turned so as first to backwash the bed to cleanse the zeolite , and then to pass in brine for a fixed time to regenerate the material . |
| 13 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 14 | I drove in silence for a while . |
| 15 | They drove in silence for a while , with Rachel content just to be beside him , happy in the knowledge that all their difficulties had somehow been resolved . |
| 16 | She drove in silence for a while , then tried again . |
| 17 | Pat sat smoking in silence for a few minutes and no one else spoke but suddenly he said , ‘ How much of it was real , Julia , when you come to think of it , and how much for fear of what people would say ? |
| 18 | The audience rose as one and a shocked intake of breath hung in silence for a second , before they broke into hysterical laughter . |
| 19 | Take one cockroach , marinate in wine for a day , fry it in beef fat and smother with chocolate — it tastes delicious , says China 's Yangcheng Daily newspaper . |
| 20 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 21 | JUST because we have n't been seen in LINK for a while — it does n't mean its been quiet at Crediton ! |
| 22 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 23 | Most of those ones you can audit , they really are procedures we 've had in place for a year but have been audited before and have had minor changes to erm , the wording . |
| 24 | I needed a break and a ticket to Corfu was the medicine I 'd had in mind for a considerable time . |
| 25 | Speculation continued , however , that Pinochet would agree to resign in return for a quiet settlement of scandals involving his regime . |
| 26 | Before the war the preponderant output was produced in mass for a prospective demand . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's just something I 've got in mind for a big party I 'm planning . ’ |
| 28 | The horror of the war led some Christians to look in desperation for a new understanding of God as the suffering God . |
| 29 | Fishing crews were now given the alternative option of remaining in port for a total of 135 days during the same period . |
| 30 | ( 4368 in number in January 1988 , roughly half Church of England and half Roman Catholic ) provide their own premises and meet some of the maintenance costs in exchange for a degree of control . |