Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 2 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 3 | I lay there for a long time thinking about that , the loud insistence of the Mexican music from across the way drumming in my ears and gradually merging into the crashing ice of layering floes as my mind drifted into a fantasy of trekking with Iris Sunderby towards the dim outline of an icicle-festooned ghost of a ship , the man at the helm towering like a giant question mark over my jet-lagged brain . |
| 4 | I lay there for a minute recovering my cool and then headed for the back door . |
| 5 | I sit there for a bit longer , till I finish my coffee , then I decide to go out and have a look round the station . |
| 6 | I sit there for a second thinking , No , it ca n't be … |
| 7 | With the rod in my right hand and the line between butt-ring and reel looped over the middle finger of my left hand I wait impatiently for a bite . |
| 8 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 9 | I stand there for a second , before stepping back . |
| 10 | And I could put myself down as in case I get there for a day or two . |
| 11 | Do n't stop playing on me now when I get home for a cup of tea ! |
| 12 | I ask only for a heart as constant |
| 13 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 14 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 15 | There 's a sort of metal fence I can sit on , so I rest there for a bit and watch the ducks and that . |
| 16 | I rummage furiously for a freebie hotel mini-shampoo bottle with a screw-on lid the size of a marble . |