Example sentences of "you [vb past] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two . |
| 2 | At the meeting of the Transportation Committee on 5 October 1992 you asked for a report on bus services in the Kirknewton area . |
| 3 | It is almost summer , high time you decamped for a fortnight . |
| 4 | You yelled for an hour without stopping . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The colonel said you worked for a travel agency as an assessor of foreign locations . |
| 6 | That 's , that 's two months and that keep that keeps you covered for a while , does n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ And that 's presumably when you went for a smoke on the roof ? ’ |
| 8 | where you went for a walk , down , went to the shops |
| 9 | Er and y you know if you sent for a doctor you were almost apologetic that the mother was torn . |
| 10 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |
| 11 | ‘ I have already heard , ’ said Julian , ‘ how in the council of last November you spoke for a parley with the Lord Owen , and told the king 's ministers that he would be willing to talk peace . |
| 12 | Certainly will cos she 's leaving well that do n't matter , have a look and erm , it might turn out fine , it might keep you occupied for a while |
| 13 | ‘ You told them what you did for a living ? ’ |
| 14 | Instead of the expected explosion , Charlie said softly and mildly ‘ Time you slept for a change . ’ |
| 15 | It was the kind of place where you waited for a bus that never came . |
| 16 | And then every year after that , they used to hold the one minute 's silence which the mill whistles went and of course you stood for a minute and then they went again and that was it over . |