Example sentences of "[adv] for a [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 2 | I 'm just going to put the video on for a moment Thank you . |
| 3 | You need an empty picture frame big enough for a child to put his head in comfortably . |
| 4 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 5 | They can certainly be quite big enough for a diver to put his foot into , but he would have to be very incautious indeed to get trapped . |
| 6 | Only for a moment did he pause and face the buffeting wind with an effort , and Paul recognised in that moment his own struggle with bales of wool before the same door . |
| 7 | In some fantastic way , he could see his mind like these barren screes — a frozen cascade of broken rock face lying on the more solid rock waiting only for an impulse to charge it into dangerous motion . |
| 8 | I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move . |
| 9 | In the 68th minute the huge Musselburgh contingent in the crowd went wild when McMillan broke up the blindside and sent winger Craig Ramsey racing in for a try to put his side 14-10 up . |
| 10 | At Highlander , workshops of this sort of cultural exchange play a critical role in reaching across the natural human barriers which we can expect to find when a number of different people from widely different communities , cultural backgrounds , and economic and social circumstances are thrown together for a weekend to discuss their common problems in an attempt to find solutions . |
| 11 | And me mam says , oh just for a change to give someone else a chance . |
| 12 | Joe looked round desperately for a place to put his hat , and finally laid it lovingly on a shelf . |
| 13 | Not for a second did she doubt the truth of what he was saying , but to gain time she licked her dry lips and croaked : |
| 14 | Was n't I told you have to hold them tight and not for a minute take your eyes off them ? |
| 15 | It is a commitment to a set of practical arrangements that should not for a minute outlive its usefulness . |
| 16 | ‘ No power on earth is greater , and the Yasa is his to do as he — ’ not for a Kha-Khan to amuse himself like a selfish child . ’ |
| 17 | Not for a moment had they considered the possibility . |
| 18 | Not for a moment had she been able to deceive herself that she was anything but bad , truly bad . |
| 19 | Not for a moment had she thought that she would ever be given a lift in the Mercedes again . |
| 20 | Not for a moment did I realise that we would be gone for almost three months , return home for nine months , and then spend one more month to finally finish in Australia ! |
| 21 | Not for a moment did his eyes sweep around the mountain heights which everywhere peered down on this upturned basin of ancient civilisation . |
| 22 | Not for a moment do I want you to believe unthinkingly in what I say . |
| 23 | Not for a moment do I want our standards to drop and I entirely advocate the stringent standards of the Recruitment Committee . |
| 24 | In our work we can not for a moment disregard them , yet we are never sure that we are seeing them clearly . |
| 25 | ‘ I would not for a moment have it supposed that I mean anything derogatory to Dr. Yeats … but human nature is fallible . |
| 26 | I would not for a moment propose we face the same immediate peril confronting the world in the early 1940s . |
| 27 | ‘ Pray be seated , my lady , ’ he said , using the courtesy title whilst not for an instant confusing her with her half-sister . |
| 28 | Not for an instant do its eyes leave mine . |
| 29 | On the earlier occasion , the old man had also ‘ stopp 'd short ’ while on a holiday fishing expedition ; at that time his daughter Emma was already dead , but we flash back even further for a moment to recall her voice . |
| 30 | Once or twice a year I would go home for a weekend to see my mother . |