Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderton struck twice in three minutes in the first half to stun 20,000 fans allowed in for nothing for a game marking Sunderland 's new status as a city . |
| 2 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ So how about me for a mate ? ’ |
| 4 | I personally think he suits their style more and will probably do good things for them for a while , until he gets bored , or dropped , or injured . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That 's an area where they 're not gon na get involved unless there 's an awful lot of money and yes , there is money , for them for a training budget , but certainly not enough to cover what would be lost if , if Tomlinson , and let's face it , if they win Tomlinson it will just continue . |
| 7 | The little girl answered and the conversation flowed between them for a while ; the little boy did n't say anything . |
| 8 | The only objects in the entire room were two upturned wooden boxes to serve as chairs and a third box between them for a table . |
| 9 | Piper squirmed between them for a moment , fighting to get free , then went limp . |
| 10 | PAUL Hodkinson and Colin McMillan are demanding £500,000 between them for a world featherweight title showdown . |
| 11 | Do you want to just hold that on there for me for a second . |
| 12 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 13 | Would you and Karen mind standing in for me for a while ? ’ |
| 14 | Can you just get up and look under your seat for me for a moment ? |
| 15 | Last time Roger was outside waiting for me for an hour and a half |
| 16 | " She looking for someone for a job ? " |
| 17 | It is time we voted for ourselves for a change . |
| 18 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 19 | My sister looked after me for a week . |
| 20 | Theda stood looking after them for a moment , aware of her own burning curiosity . |
| 21 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
| 22 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
| 23 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 24 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 25 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 26 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 27 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 28 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 29 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 30 | Dana stared after him for a moment , then turned a malevolent glare on Claudia . |