Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mark the occasion ULSS staff past and present met up for an evening . |
| 2 | It covered all land and air forces , but not paramilitary forces , on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place . |
| 3 | Siegfried 's jaw clenched tight for a moment then he motioned with his hand . |
| 4 | A CONVICTED killer allowed out for a stroll in the grounds of a mental hospital just kept walking — and was still missing yesterday , 24 hours later . |
| 5 | On the fringe of the political scene , the Daily Mail campaigned vigorously for a coalition under a new leader and various important figures in the City of London let it be known that a Socialist Government would be a financial disaster . |
| 6 | With the slope in their favour and the wind at their backs , Hammer pressed hard for an early goal to unsettle the favourites . |
| 7 | Bryn 's mouth worked silently for a few seconds . |
| 8 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
| 9 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 10 | That summer football waited anxiously for a decision on the future of the League competition . |
| 11 | I lay for an hour until the wind subsided enough for a hill to show two miles away . |
| 12 | And she found her eyes drifting to examine his left hand , noting that as usual he was wearing no rings , hating the way hope stirred foolishly for a moment . |
| 13 | The boy fought wildly for a few seconds but then his right arm was bent back behind him until he called out in the most desperate agony he had ever known . |
| 14 | The work hummed on for a while . |
| 15 | This meant that the married women left at home came in for a large share of the work about the croft . |
| 16 | Some thirty graduates of the degree came together for an excellent meal in University House , followed by an informal update from one of the joint organisers of the reunion , Keith Moffitt , on the whereabouts of those who had been unable to attend . |
| 17 | The sun came up for a half an hour , but it was too cold : -46° Centigrade . |
| 18 | oh look at the sky it 's grey , the sun came out for a minute , but it 's all grey again , oh , this sides ever so stiff |
| 19 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 20 | The last dance went on for a long time . |
| 21 | All the general SVQ tutors , and the SVQ co-ordinator went away for a three-day residential to develop the programme . |
| 22 | This sort of exchange went on for a long time . |
| 23 | If a firm was not maximising its future cash flows , and hence its value , an opportunity opened up for a bid . |
| 24 | The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans . |
| 25 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
| 26 | At the other end Tyrone Howe who saw very little of the ball during the match went over for a try in the left corner , following a fine break from Andrew Gallagher . |
| 27 | Purple took over for a while , ha . |
| 28 | The sing-song lumbered along for a little while but it appears that the ‘ Ball of Kirriemuir ’ has been removed from the Examination Syllabus . |
| 29 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 30 | The eruption of Krakatoa has some parallels in these respects , for after an impressive opening , the eruption dragged on for a full three months before reaching its climax on 26 and 27 August . |