Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
| 2 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |
| 3 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 4 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 5 | There 's a sort of metal fence I can sit on , so I rest there for a bit and watch the ducks and that . |
| 6 | I Tried to get some cleaning help but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 7 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 8 | Mr Whinnett said : ‘ Joanna was in a state of pure terror and , although she sat down for a while , she most certainly did not sleep . ’ |
| 9 | Wyatt 's subsequent work was primarily as a country-house architect and ‘ improver ’ , although he competed unsuccessfully for a number of major public commissions and in 1816 published a Prospectus of a Design for Various Improvements in the Metropolis , in which he made radical proposals for replanning the West End . |
| 10 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
| 11 | you have a sweet and all that sort of thing , I mean you ca n't I ca n't resist them if I go out for a meal , I 've got to have the sweet , I 'd rather have the sweet |
| 12 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 13 | " I mean , what are my chances , if I stick around for a couple more months ? " |
| 14 | Neither of us spoke for a few moments , then she asked : ‘ Do you mind if I stay here for a little while ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ All right if I drop in for a drink this evening ? ’ he said . |
| 16 | as if someone scrabbling desperately for a hold had used even the little frictional grip pressure against the vertical could give . |
| 17 | Ignoring the suddenly bright gleam in his eyes , she bent and grabbed the hem of her shift , tearing the flimsy material easily until she had enough for a bandage . |
| 18 | Day Seven : Time at leisure until you check in for a scheduled flight home to London Heathrow . |
| 19 | The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa . |
| 20 | Now if you went out for a ferry , you 'd have one of us guarding the stereo one person on that . |
| 21 | Jim will walk with his arm round Anna 's waist , and they tend to vanish if you turn away for a moment . |
| 22 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 23 | Meals are part of the holiday social life , and such good value that it makes little difference if you drop out for a day or two to eat locally . |
| 24 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 25 | Drink 's never been either here or there for me , bar a wee Baileys with my coffee if we go out for a meal and I always buy it in at Christmas , because most women like it . |
| 26 | Okay has anybody else got anything more on that on that subject ? if we go back for a bit and just go back to the |
| 27 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 28 | All three of us if we went up for a weekend . |
| 29 | If anybody comes in for a car radio cassette , I 've stuck one at the top there twenty quid if anybody |
| 30 | I thought he looked like he worked hard for a living — which he did . |