Example sentences of "[prep] [det] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After thinking about this for a few minutes , he said , ‘ No ; it must be imagination . ’ |
| 2 | He pondered the implications of this for a few days , uncertain whether to welcome it or feel alarmed . |
| 3 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 4 | They stayed like that for a few seconds , both breathing hard , their mouths almost touching . |
| 5 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 6 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
| 7 | He held her like this for a few seconds and then , suddenly , the oddly predatory look left his face and his hands dropped to his sides . |
| 8 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 9 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 10 | Due to your efforts sales are ‘ just ’ above those for the same period last year . |
| 11 | Although the analysis of variance for the recoded risk information is slightly different from that for the all the potential risks it is clear from Figure 7.3 that with the exception of the medium risk exemplars the general pattern of results is very similar to that shown in Figure 7.2 . |
| 12 | Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital . |