Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary was still a good looking woman and Sid had admired her from afar for a long time . |
| 2 | Organ jazz has long been club-trendy , but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and John Patton . |
| 3 | Organ jazz has for a long time been club-trendy but it has taken until now for a new artist to come through to match the likes of Jimmy Smith and ‘ Big ’ John Patton with whom she shares a clear affinity in her choice of rhythms and blues inflections . |
| 4 | McCluskey , a summer recruit from Portadown , scored two tries as Instonians came from behind for a comfortable win . |
| 5 | You 'd 've been better off to have been booked in here for a good night 's sleep and then driven up the next day but then you 're virtually sort of getting up there turning round and coming back are n't you ? |
| 6 | I suppose your standard Manhattan faggot might look in here for a final white wine en route to a dungeon appointment or death-pact rendezvous at the Water Closet or the Mother Load . |
| 7 | Put the fire on in here for a little while |
| 8 | and I 'd already put my other form in like to er I , and I was raging cos like I could 've got and sat in here for a fucking week |
| 9 | Exemptions likely to be encountered include vehicles not exceeding 10 cwt unladen specially adapted for invalids ; vehicles brought from abroad for a temporary stay are exempt not exceeding one year from date of importation ; vehicles going to or returning from a vehicle test or being repaired etc. as a result of the test , provided in all cases prior arrangements have been made . |
| 10 | She was in there for a good five minutes crashing around and swearing occasionally . |
| 11 | They were in there for a long time . |
| 12 | Have n't seen Dan in there for a long time , I thought he 'd left Lionel and gone off to get a a highly lucrative job somewhere You do n't somehow expect to see a , a young man with a university degree working in your local green grocer do you ? |
| 13 | Been in there for a long time are n't they ? |
| 14 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 15 | Join us on Wednesday 25 April from 6 to 8pm for a private evening of informal modelling of Marie 's beautifully designed clothes . |
| 16 | got nice er double decker bus type thing with a video player on and all that , mind you it should do really cos they 're on there for a long time |
| 17 | Even Edwards , according to Wood , still presents management ‘ as omniscient , conspiratorial and able , at least for a certain period of time , to get its own way — that is , to solve successfully its problem of control ’ ( Wood 1982 , 16 ) . |
| 18 | It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment . |
| 19 | The United States wished to secure a transitional period in which limited American military and economic aid would be extended to south Korea in the hope that the communists would be kept at bay , at least for a decent interval . |
| 20 | There is an emerging argument here , if not for chastity , then at least for a prudent continence and a cool response to such favours , sexual or other , as the world may choose to offer . |
| 21 | In the final analysis , it may be that national states and their control agencies are relatively autonomous of a particular social class , and that in that sense could , under the right circumstances , become an instrument , at least for a specific and limited objective , of any particular class or alliance of classes or pressure groups . |
| 22 | It seems there must have been , at least for a critical short time , a feeling in the company that there should be a positive effort to create a modernised canal route from London to Langley Mill . |
| 23 | This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day . |
| 24 | If diffugere signals that winter 's troops are on the run — the snows have skeddadled — then the Grace may dare , at least for a brief time of truce , to resume her peaceful pastimes . |
| 25 | By contrast , the consequences and so competences , and hence the adequacies or inadequacies , of natural selection , especially for long-run effects , were practically impossible to decide , at least for a finite intellect ; although the young Darwin himself could consistently suppose that God in choosing this means for adapting life to a changing earth had foreseen all its consequences . |
| 26 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 27 | Even if sympathy was n't forthcoming , she had hoped at least for a little guidance , some clue as to where she had fallen short , or advice for the future . |
| 28 | He had a certain number of men-at-arms in the town , who could , probably , contain a revolt of the townsfolk , at least for a little while . |
| 29 | But at least for a little while Mama would be happy , and keeping Mama happy had become a way of life , almost . |
| 30 | She needs to be where he was — at least for a little while . ’ |