Example sentences of "just for a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them
2 It is hardly worth your while bringing a suitcase all that way , just for a weekend . ’
3 I would like to go just for a trial .
4 Just for a couple of nights in Dieppe : though I sometimes take the car and get down to Rouen .
5 ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’
6 Just just for a couple of weekends to see how many actual calls we do get .
7 What I 'd like you to do now is er , just for a couple of minutes , informally with the people sitting next to you , see if you can list as many channels as you can under those second two headings , okay ?
8 It would do her psyche good to get away from here , even just for a couple of weeks .
9 we 've both got a week off , and we thought we 'd all can go just for a couple of days
10 ‘ But it would n't be for ever : just for a while , perhaps , and morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen . ’
11 Perhaps just for a while to tide you over a particularly bad crop of bills .
12 " I probably will , just for a while , unless you 'd rather I did n't . "
13 You need Schmidt — just for a while .
14 Gerry worked for me , just for a while — days I could afford help .
15 Each of them had the chance to take the controls and fly the glider 8010 — just for a while , before the pilot brought the plane gently back to earth .
16 ‘ I 'll stay just for a while longer .
17 None too quietly , he asked the woman if she would mind leaving him alone , just for a while , since he had something more important to do for the minute than listen to her gripes and belly-aching .
18 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 .
19 ‘ Pull off the road , George , just for a minute .
20 What I would n't give , I thought , to be able to lie down on that bed , just for a minute .
21 The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer .
22 I 'll just tell you about this Can I just tell you about this just for a minute ?
23 And suppose okay well let's imagine just for a minute that she gets three four four five as , as interest
24 She wanted him not there , but at least if he would just stop , just for a minute , and say something to her .
25 A faint , ironic smile played about her mouth as she allowed herself , just for a minute , to imagine what the weekend could have held if she had been one of Dane 's legion of devoted followers .
26 She had , though , just for a minute .
27 Just for a minute I panicked .
28 the dentist just for a minute
29 Would you be quiet just for a minute .
30 It might be possible to book them just for a day .
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