Example sentences of "that [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is surprising is that just for a change , some of this talk is being turned into action . |
| 2 | His story sounded so genuine that just for a moment she was tempted to tell him , but something held her back , a deep-seated fear of making a mistake . |
| 3 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 4 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 5 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , during our — association — you made veiled insinuations about me and Elise — ’ |
| 6 | He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity . |
| 7 | The predictions made by Johnson were tested by simulation studies , which showed that even for a 100 per cent packed file , if the discipline he recommended is adhered to , the average number of accesses can be kept down to 1.5 per retrieval , and for larger bucket sizes this is reduced to around 1.25 . |
| 8 | Perhaps generations of detective story writers , from Wilkie Collins down , are responsible for the romantic image of criminal investigation , so that even for a modern hard-bitten public the initials C.I.D . |