Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it might be an excellent idea if you forgot about everything else for a minute and let me hold you . ’ |
| 2 | On leaving the castle , the dapper-suited President Havel , more at home in sweater and jeans , stood with everyone else for a rendering of the national anthem . |
| 3 | I just could n't go and get off with someone just for a joke , I could n't do it . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't really believe I went to bed with you just for a story ? ’ |
| 5 | , we wo n't be dealing with anybody else for a while , I can tell you . |
| 6 | I would sit with her often for a whole hour , she with her feet up on the sofa , resting . |
| 7 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
| 8 | He reached for the Caithness paperweight on his desk and fiddled with it absently for a moment . |
| 9 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 10 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 11 | Why do n't you pick on somebody else for a change ? |
| 12 | I would n't er bestow them er on you even for a short visit though . |
| 13 | If we could talk to you inside for a few minutes you wo n't regret it . ’ |
| 14 | He greeted her , his eyes falling on her again for an instant and then skittering away . |
| 15 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 16 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 17 | He advanced on him only for an exquisite googly to dip and dart through the gap to bruise the off stump . |
| 18 | The autobiography — Sins of My Old Age and Earlier he had already dipped into , and he went back to it reluctantly for a more systematic reading . |
| 19 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 20 | Wendell lit a cigar and puffed on it thoughtfully for a few minutes before saying , ‘ Those guardians of yours , Harry — the ones who filched your father 's legacy from you . |
| 21 | Well just talk to us now for a second . |
| 22 | In every other respect , the manoeuvres will mimic what would happen during World War III , adding a novel experience for anyone out for a drive on Sunday afternoon during a practice run . |
| 23 | She looked up at me steadily for a moment before she spoke . |
| 24 | He looked at me quietly for a moment . |
| 25 | She stared at me blankly for a moment , then turned and went back to the sitting room . |
| 26 | He stared at her steadily for a moment and then nodded . |
| 27 | He looked at her steadily for a moment and then his hard expression softened considerably . |
| 28 | He stared at her incredulously for a moment , then , as he began to speak , she forestalled him . |
| 29 | Detective Inspector Aziz looked at her carefully for a minute . |
| 30 | He tilted her face , looking at her deeply for a moment and then letting her go . |