Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Ken went , they drove off to Hornsey in the ambulance and stopped first for a Chinese meal — much against Lou 's wishes ; she does n't like Chinese — followed by a session at the pub . |
| 2 | Conditions in Kursk town seemed propitious for an anti-Bolshevik armed peasant uprising in October . |
| 3 | But misses at times when they seemed set for a good end let the Stranraer team in . |
| 4 | Everything seemed set for a happy and relaxed nine months . |
| 5 | The way now seemed open for a new era of reform , with Roosevelt at the height of his political powers . |
| 6 | Visiting Sarajevo a fortnight ago , Osborne joined Smailovic for an impromptu performance in the devastated remains of the Skenderija Stadium . |
| 7 | But the outsider of three , trained near Thirsk by Andrew Stringer , made all for a runaway success over two well fancied raiders from fashionable southern yards . |
| 8 | The battalion became famous for a skilful defence of the Cerro Mala Cara carried out in February 1982 , when the combined forces of the US-trained army battalions , the " Ramon Belloso " and the " Atlacail " were forced into retreat : |
| 9 | ‘ It is well settled that certainly no person made responsible for a judicial decision can delegate his responsibility . |
| 10 | Boswell felt depressed for a brief time , and homesick : no letters had arrived for him , the cause of a little worry . |
| 11 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 12 | A LORRY driver who felt sorry for an unwanted calf stole animal feed to keep it alive . |
| 13 | After walking in the relative heat for two hours , we decided that it was time for a break , and this decision was reinforced when we spotted a river which looked perfect for a quick ‘ dip ’ . |
| 14 | Hari lay awake for a long time , staring into the darkness . |
| 15 | " It is a woman you will be then , Sara Hussey , " she whispered to herself , and lay awake for a long time after , watching a narrow strip of moonlight creep slowly across the wall . |
| 16 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 17 | That night she lay awake for a long time , thinking first of her father , recalling many happy childhood memories and wishing fervently , as she had so many times before , that he had not left her so soon . |
| 18 | He lay awake for a long time looking for possible connections between the incidents and listening to Rain breathing . |
| 19 | Soon the lawyer said goodnight and went home to bed , where he lay awake for a long time thinking about Enfield 's description of Hyde , and Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 20 | That night , Alice lay awake for a long time , listening to the noises of the old house , trying to hear if her mother was weeping . |
| 21 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 22 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 23 | I ca n't vouch for this hotel but it looked wonderful for a romantic weekend . |
| 24 | Her tongue felt parched for a cool drink . |
| 25 | The way lay open for a sustained attack on environmentalism . |
| 26 | In the motorway restaurant , I chose a bland meal I thought suitable for a little girl , and had a chicken salad myself . |
| 27 | There was Donald from the smithy , joking with young McLaggan from Grandtully and two of his own daughters — they had brought parcels of food and bottles of drink and looked ready for a good day 's outing . |
| 28 | ‘ He kept quiet for a long time working out how long soap could keep for , then he just said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to sell the things . ’ |
| 29 | Then he fell silent for a little while , as if in meditation . |
| 30 | Speed got booked for a heavy tackle which prompted the first use of the chant ‘ the referee 's a German ’ . |