Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything he did smelt quality , even though he was on for such a short time . ’ |
| 2 | One of the frustrations of being in opposition for so long to what is , in effect , a minority Government is having to watch this country go on for such a long time without any energy policy . |
| 3 | How could they get women to sign on for such a life ? ’ |
| 4 | But did n't it go on for such a long time ! |
| 5 | After entering the wood keep straight on for half a mile . |
| 6 | Although one character does get to chunter on for half a page about how the real point of fund-raising is its feelgood side effects ( get-away ! ) , there is really no satirical content here at all : the real point of the book is that it features loads and loads of cartoon rumpy-pumpy : randy housewives and naughty underwear , haystacks and giant inflatable condoms , improbable sexual positions and unlikely transvestites . |
| 7 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 8 | It was typical of Benjamin James , as it happens , to go in for such a touch of harmless sycophancy to please his friend the vicar ; he had very soon become , as we might have guessed , a respectable pillar of the Curry Rivel establishment . |
| 9 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 10 | The fate laid up for such a man is revealed by the story of Alderman Reed of London , who , ‘ upon a disobedient stomach ’ , refused to pay and gave a bad example to his fellow citizens . |
| 11 | Well anyway , I I 'll definitely go up for half a day a week you know . |
| 12 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 13 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 14 | Sometimes the driver comes and takes one group out for half a day , then he 'll take another group out for half a day , or he 'll take them out for a full day 's picnic . |
| 15 | We ran flat out for half a mile before we could throw them off . ’ |
| 16 | HAVING done all the hard work in bowling out for 158 a Bellville XI bolstered by four Western Province players , Scotland failed to score quickly enough in going down to a second defeat , by 13 runs , on their South African tour yesterday . |
| 17 | Writing on an LCD does n't come naturally , and even 5.5lbs is heavy to carry around for half a day . |