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 . |