Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both had in May called publicly for a return to a multiparty system . |
| 2 | Katherine sat silently for a long moment , her eyes growing perceptibly wider , the colour draining from her cheeks . |
| 3 | Fergus stood there for a moment . |
| 4 | When they split up , Tree stayed away for a year , but reemerged to send Bailey a telegram when he married Marie Helvin . |
| 5 | Rory looked away for a second , towards the beach , where the long Atlantic rollers crashed against the broad expanse of gold . |
| 6 | Piper looked away for a moment . |
| 7 | Young Donald listened sceptically for a moment . |
| 8 | Boro battled well for a hard-earned point in a poor game and they remain six points behind Cambridge but with four games in hand . |
| 9 | Dona Marguerita coughed wheezily for a few moments before resuming the interview . |
| 10 | Ellwood stayed still for a while , letting the priest set up his tackle and make a couple of casts , then he slithered down to the path . |
| 11 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 12 | I was n't even tempted , until Darren came home for a while and started having a lot of fits . |
| 13 | Rose drove silently for a few minutes . |
| 14 | Jessamy stood there for a few moments , staring at his retreating back . |
| 15 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 16 | Never afraid of disturbing cosy arrangements that had outlived their usefulness , McEwan Younger worked single-mindedly for a merger with William Youngers , another family company . |
| 17 | They were willing to accept a cut in transitional benefit which would have had the effect of ‘ throwing at least some of those receiving transitional benefit upon public assistance ’ , while Henderson pressed hard for a ‘ premium ’ , a flat deduction of 1s. a week from all unemployment benefits . |
| 18 | Jack thought hard for a moment , almost not liking to confirm his suspicion . |
| 19 | On Oct. 8 the OAS voted unanimously for a trade embargo , the freezing of Haitian government assets , the banning of arms sales and the diplomatic isolation of the military junta , although agreeing to the provision of basic humanitarian aid . |
| 20 | Becker and Engelman combined only for a pleasantly smoochy encore by David Jaeger , composed this year and arranged by Engelman from a piano accompaniment to the viola . |
| 21 | Kenneth looked away for a moment , then cleared his throat . |
| 22 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 23 | After that there was no way back for Foulds as Doherty raced away for a 5–2 win , sealing it with a 60 break in what proved to be the final frame . |
| 24 | Dr Dunstaple paused triumphantly for a moment to allow the significance of this to seep in . |
| 25 | The Threarah waited politely for a few moments and then he said , " Well , now , and what ought we to do about it , I wonder ? |
| 26 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 27 | The USA pressed instead for a full 12-month moratorium on involuntary repatriation in order to give refugees a greater opportunity to take advantage of voluntary repatriation schemes ; the Vietnamese government proposed a nine-month moratorium . |
| 28 | Hayman thought deeply for a long while before making up his mind . |
| 29 | The Bishop of London stayed abroad for a while , and then discreetly returned and was found to be in office again , and so effectively that no one troubled to make an issue of it . |
| 30 | Fernie stood irresolutely for a moment . |