Example sentences of "for a [det] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 2 | For a few minutes I was free of this terrible worry about who I am , about my family . |
| 3 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 4 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 5 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 6 | For a few moments I had let my mind plunge into darkness , into a world where the experience of all my life was disproved and ghosts existed . |
| 7 | For a few moments I felt disappointment . |
| 8 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 9 | Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him . |
| 10 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |
| 11 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 12 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 13 | For a few seconds I was left shell shocked but I was quickly brought to my senses after seeing the broken rig . |
| 14 | Bellybutton was McIllvanney 's foreman , and for a few seconds I dared hope that he had come to help us , but instead he told me that one of the bareboat thirty-three-footers was in trouble . |
| 15 | And for a few weeks I was happy . |
| 16 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 17 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |