Example sentences of "for a [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out . |
| 2 | Now frantic supporters who lost out are willing to pay up to £75 for a voucher they need to buy a ticket for the cup final on May 9 . |
| 3 | Alright , leave the car there just for a bit I want to go over and see |
| 4 | For a minute she continued to hold on to me . |
| 5 | For a minute she had believed she might have been responsible for the change in his life , but it was n't her but Maria Luisa . |
| 6 | There was no sign of a studio and for a minute she expected to find that Alain had been merely frightening her — some hidden cruelty to make her feel uncomfortable , another chance to embarrass her . |
| 7 | I wanted to find a better job , but for a factory you need to have finished school and in the coffee processing industries they ask for ninth grade . |
| 8 | But she also had to keep house for Aunt Bessie and for a lodger she had to take in to make ends meet . |
| 9 | Mr Ellis spoke at the Monteleone Hotel , New Orleans , where he and Miss Stott from Bridgewater Court , Eccles , Manchester , booked a room on Tuesday , after arriving for a holiday they had planned months ago . |
| 10 | He had even experienced it himself once or twice , particularly while doing the outline plans for a church he had designed as part of a new mixed-density , mixed-income neighbourhood scheme , which had been well reviewed in the journals . |
| 11 | Displaying remarkable maturity for a 22-year-old he has emerged in the last 18 months as the game 's outstanding personality , a player blessed with the full range of skills , someone with an unflappable temperament to match . |
| 12 | ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ was written by Benjamin Britten for a company he formed to tour around the country , making opera more accessible to more people . |
| 13 | Even Picasso and Braque , who shared their discoveries so intimately that for a while they came to share a common vision , looked , it will be seen , at Cézanne in different ways . |
| 14 | For a while we sat listening to the rain drumming on the roof . |
| 15 | For a while he had stood there at his side studying how he worked , how he soaked the garments and slapped them rhythmically against the smooth stone slabs . |
| 16 | For a while he had thought that his masturbating friends all had VD and that it was a dollop of pus coming out when they pulled at themselves . |
| 17 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 18 | For a while she had considered starving herself , but one thought made her force down the bread and drink the water . |
| 19 | For a while she lay staring at the wall . |
| 20 | For a while she managed to swim , but eventually she grew tired and her mouth filled with water , and she sank choking beneath the waves … |
| 21 | For a while she tried to stay awake , but in the end she gave up . |
| 22 | She had switched the apartment air-conditioning off , distrusting its effect on the health , and for a while she tried to convince herself that it was the unaccustomed humidity that made her so restless , but she did n't really believe it , and the eyes that looked back at her from her bathroom mirror in the morning were shadowy , and hunted . |
| 23 | For a while she tried to work , but it was useless . |
| 24 | For a generation we have witnessed the tragic , though often heroic progress of those handicapped by its use . |
| 25 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 26 | They misled you , for a year you have known that . |
| 27 | And erm , it wa , at the reception afterwards we actually paid him the fine er , a contribution to a a , a fund his church had for a painting they wanted to buy . |
| 28 | Well , you 'll just have to tell them that it 's missing but when I 've paid for a newspaper I expect to get all the pieces that I 've paid for and I 've already paid for mine , so this I 'll take . |
| 29 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |
| 30 | He won that actually on appeal because he said he needed to raise the funds for a project he 'd got in mind and they allowed him twenty eight days in the first year , he now carries on fourteen days without planning permission every year , but give him credit he does run it very well , er and you can not fault him , but we in our area do actually issue licences , you can not have a car boot sale or market stall without a licence and I personally have run the charity markets in er the village high street and got a licence at the cost of a pound . |