Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to the site 's owners , the Guiting Manor Amenity Trust , excavation continues to search for signs of those whose victim has lain undisturbed for so long and for a reason why the site was built so carefully in a line with the mid-summer sun . |
| 2 | David 's mother smiled then and her lovely face looked suddenly young and for a moment hardly tired at all . |
| 3 | In the corner was a large gilt cage containing a number of stuffed birds with glossy black plumage , yellow beaks and sharp little eyes ; they were disconcertingly lifelike and for a moment Melanie thought they were real . |
| 4 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 5 | The R.S.F. was equally adamant and for a while , the management held out the driver was responsible was to be reprimanded . |
| 6 | It happened almost overnight and for a long time nobody even heard of him . ’ |
| 7 | For half of Oxfordshire teachers , outsiders were not very involved and for a further quarter not involved at all . |
| 8 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 9 | The boys had local reactions and quickly recovered but his wife 's arm became very inflamed and for a time her condition gave cause for concern . |