Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LAWYER acting for Mrs Winnie Mandela appealed yesterday for an end to press speculation about her marriage to Mr Nelson Mandela as further reports surfaced alleging links with yet another township murder . |
| 2 | Jake checked only for an instant . |
| 3 | Both had in May called publicly for a return to a multiparty system . |
| 4 | Katherine sat silently for a long moment , her eyes growing perceptibly wider , the colour draining from her cheeks . |
| 5 | Fergus stood there for a moment . |
| 6 | When they split up , Tree stayed away for a year , but reemerged to send Bailey a telegram when he married Marie Helvin . |
| 7 | Rory looked away for a second , towards the beach , where the long Atlantic rollers crashed against the broad expanse of gold . |
| 8 | Piper looked away for a moment . |
| 9 | Young Donald listened sceptically for a moment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Bournemouth searched spiritedly for an equaliser in the second half . |
| 12 | Dona Marguerita coughed wheezily for a few moments before resuming the interview . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 15 | As in the first round [ see p. 37840 ] , Walesa argued primarily for an acceleration of the government 's reform programme in order to avert social unrest , and Tyminski called for even more radical free-market measures . |
| 16 | I was n't even tempted , until Darren came home for a while and started having a lot of fits . |
| 17 | Rose drove silently for a few minutes . |
| 18 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin called yesterday for an urgent session of the country 's highest legislature to end a power struggle threatening to derail his reform plans . |
| 19 | Jessamy stood there for a few moments , staring at his retreating back . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Jack thought hard for a moment , almost not liking to confirm his suspicion . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Kenneth looked away for a moment , then cleared his throat . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Dr Dunstaple paused triumphantly for a moment to allow the significance of this to seep in . |
| 30 | The Threarah waited politely for a few moments and then he said , " Well , now , and what ought we to do about it , I wonder ? |