Example sentences of "for [adj] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 2 | Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’ |
| 3 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |
| 4 | For half the trip I sat on the floor of the plane , holding the boy 's hand , watching the drip . |
| 5 | And you 'll find for half the pack it 's one a day and then for the second half of the pack it 's two a day . |
| 6 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 7 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 8 | For half an hour they had lain in each other 's arms in the creaking guest-house bed , too scared with happiness to move . |
| 9 | And then for half an hour they make small talk . |
| 10 | For half an hour they talked over student days and student friends and then there was a long pause . |
| 11 | ‘ For half an hour it was scary and now it seems funny , ’ says Gordon . |
| 12 | For half an hour he took tea and biscuits with them , and discussed the problems of weight reduction through additional use of gallium worked into plutonium . |
| 13 | The pain of returning circulation was violent , and for half an hour he bit his lips and clenched the muscles that still worked to keep himself from moaning . |
| 14 | For half an hour I thought that was the end of our career . |
| 15 | After skulking around for half an hour I spotted a kestrel in a tree nearby . |
| 16 | For half an hour she lay on the floor in pain before they finally left with a hoard of silverware . |
| 17 | But erm after I 'd choked for half an hour she went to sleep I eventually went back to sleep again and |
| 18 | In return for such a privilege we implicitly acknowledge that there are reciprocal obligations incumbent upon us . |
| 19 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 20 | ‘ For such a friend I had , though after all |
| 21 | To obtain a quotation for such a policy you need to give the insurers full particulars of the restrictions , the proposed development ( often after outline planning permission has been obtained ) and the amount of indemnity required . |
| 22 | This example requires a large table ; if there is not room in primary storage for such a table it is not possible to handle the file as a self-indexing file , and a different method of addressing must be used . |
| 23 | At this moment she had the urge to fly back to the house , take her into her arms again and say ‘ I 'm going to make it up to you for all the love that I 've withheld , and for all the love you 've missed in your life . ’ |
| 24 | Yet , for all the suffering they will cause in Kuwait — killing people as well as thousands of animals — such pollution is not a catastrophe on a planetary scale , as some had predicted . |
| 25 | This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her . |
| 26 | Originally the compact had stipulated that the Belau government would provide land for sites selected by the military and would compensate landowners , while the USA would provide $5,500,000 for all the land it had an option on . |
| 27 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 28 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 29 | The money ca n't make up for all the misery I went through . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |