Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I think he 'll feel like doing much of anything for a few hours , anyway . ’ |
| 2 | I think they are a waste of money because the baby 's only in one for a couple of months . |
| 3 | I was only in it for a lark . ’ |
| 4 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 5 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 6 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 7 | you do n't get that with the Conservative party cos they do n't let 'em get away with it for a start |
| 8 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 9 | She flung herself away from him for a moment , and then returned to attack his sex but he held her off , had to use some force to hold her blind-eyed , gaunt-faced , now grasping body away from his . |
| 10 | If only she could get right away from him for a while , then she 'd be able to cope . |
| 11 | Frankly it 'll be a pleasure just to get the hell away from you for a while . ’ |
| 12 | That you see the struggle as demanding too much from you personally and so you want to get right away from it for a while ? ’ |
| 13 | The triangular shape is also common : starting with a broad base , narrowing steadily as one goes away from it for a quarter to half a mile , until one reaches the outlet in a main road of the normal width . |
| 14 | I 'll take the little one home with me for a few days to give you a break . |
| 15 | She talked of her children , far away in the north at Alnwick castle with their household , and of the late Spring when she would take her husband home to them for a brief visit . |
| 16 | You have to quite carefully , be extra carefully with me for a minute cos I ca n't quite |
| 17 | One bounced cheque could ruin your reputation with the shop and will lead to bank charges — probably including one for a letter from the manager . |
| 18 | She stared wordlessly at him for a moment , her eyes wide with dismay . |
| 19 | Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she could n't fathom , then disappeared again . |
| 20 | It would tick over perfectly without her for a few weeks . |
| 21 | It 's tuesday and so Dr Kathleen Long 's here with us for an open surgery . |
| 22 | do n't fiddle with the speaker pet come round here to me for a minute |
| 23 | Do you want to just hold that on there for me for a second . |
| 24 | been round there once or twice after him for a different thing . |
| 25 | When she does so , you or another relative could suggest staying there with her for a day or two until she is ready to face the loneliness she has to learn to live with . |
| 26 | The archaeologists camped uncomfortably inside them for a while , then moved out into the townships that had mushroomed around the site . |
| 27 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 28 | He looked hard at her for a moment , and she tensed . |
| 29 | But Kirk 's reputation went ahead of him for a few years to come . |
| 30 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |