Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 2 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 3 | Afterwards he 'd sworn he would prefer to see any child of his six foot under rather than taken for a nun . |
| 4 | After his death many were given away or sold for a few pounds , and he was largely ignored as a painter until in 1987 six examples of his work were loaned to an exhibition entitled ‘ A Paradise Lost ’ at the Barbican Art Gallery , devoted to the neo-Romantic movement . |
| 5 | In some cases a relatively low rateable value more than compensated for a high rate poundage ( Blair 1988a:2 ) . |
| 6 | They had got up early and gone for a swim in the reservoir , which was deserted and silk-smooth , with a pearly mist hovering a clear foot above its surface . |
| 7 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 8 | The force facility can be used as often as required for a particular SPR , for example , if a user does not wish to take responsibility for the SPR or if a user accepts the SPR but at a later date passes the work onto someone else . |
| 9 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |