Example sentences of "[adv prt] and for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hijackers jumped down and for a minute it looked as if they were going to try to fight their way out . |
| 2 | The rate of economic growth in Britain slowed down and for a period was in absolute decline . |
| 3 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 4 | The amendment by an expatriate Scot , George Cunningham ( Labour , Islington ) , by ensuring that a 40 per cent vote of the electorate ( not simply of those voting ) would have to be achieved for a devolution bill to go through and for a repeal order not to be tabled , made devolution , at least for Wales , virtually an impossibility . |
| 5 | Rose tried to throw her off and for a moment they became an indistinguishable tangle of clawing arms and jerking feet . |
| 6 | Then he looked up and for a moment he was so amazed that he forgot the misery . |
| 7 | I wake up and for a moment I think I 'm at home or at Caroline 's . |