Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 'd better rest here for a while , ’ she followed him out of the kitchen and into the sitting-room to tell him . |
| 3 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 4 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 5 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 6 | Ah ye , no I mean like go out for a |
| 7 | Turning well inside the box he side-stepped Birney to hammer in a shot which McConnell did well to push out for a corner . |
| 8 | Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start . |
| 9 | Newlove then dived over for a try of his own , with late scores from Offiah and Schofield rubbing salt in Welsh wounds . |
| 10 | I 'm not an expert — I 've only lived there for a couple of years . ’ |
| 11 | I 've only popped in for a few minutes . |
| 12 | " I 've only popped down for a cup of tea . " |
| 13 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 14 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 15 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 16 | Pilger told him they had better get together for a serious talk the minute he got off the plane . |
| 17 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 18 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 19 | This was the new name of a group which had already existed informally for a few years , with a number of representatives from well-known " reforming " Edinburgh families on its committee : the McLarens , Mairs and Stevensons for instance . |
| 20 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 21 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 22 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 23 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 24 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 25 | And as often as you tell yourself she 's not your type , that you do n't like blondes , your taste tends towards the browns , even redheads but not blondes , no ; and what 's more , her face is round , but you do n't like round faces ; and you 've always gone in for a bit of shape and she 's flat as a pancake . |
| 26 | Well you see and I 've also put in for a job for the the marina at Northampton which is another mental home . |
| 27 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 28 | This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group . |
| 29 | The boathouse looked completely disused from the river and a courting couple , discovering the unlocked grille , had simply slipped inside for a bit of extra privacy . |
| 30 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |