Example sentences of "from [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In or about February 1983 , I received a message via my branch director that the deputy Director-General of MI5 was prepared to consider favourably an application from me for a telephone intercept on a member of the Communist Party within C.N.D. John Cox , a Vice-President of C.N.D. , was selected since he was well known as a member of the Communist Party and had been involved in C.N.D. practically since its inception . |
| 2 | She 's OK ’ with Mrs Lennox and it 's good for her to get away from me for a bit just now and again . |
| 3 | ‘ And do n't worry if you do n't hear from me for a few days . |
| 4 | The mail will probably take a couple of days longer to reach you from Sian , & no doubt we 'll be very busy when we get there , so forgive me if you do n't hear from me for a little while . |
| 5 | Frankly it 'll be a pleasure just to get the hell away from you for a while . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Considering I 'm eight and a half months pregnant and have n't heard from you for a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | Yeah hall hired from you for a function |
| 8 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 9 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 10 | She flung herself away from him for a moment , and then returned to attack his sex but he held her off , had to use some force to hold her blind-eyed , gaunt-faced , now grasping body away from his . |
| 11 | If only she could get right away from him for a while , then she 'd be able to cope . |
| 12 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I have not heard from him for a month now . ’ |
| 14 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 15 | That you see the struggle as demanding too much from you personally and so you want to get right away from it for a while ? ’ |
| 16 | The triangular shape is also common : starting with a broad base , narrowing steadily as one goes away from it for a quarter to half a mile , until one reaches the outlet in a main road of the normal width . |
| 17 | They have got a tangible programme from us for a devolved administration with something for all dimensions of the problem . |
| 18 | They have got a tangible programme from us for a devolved administration with something for all dimensions of the problem . |