Example sentences of "[vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estimate for the current work is far in excess of any price yet realised for a work by Goya and the highest price achieved at auction is currently the $650,000 ( £391,000 ) paid for a drawing entitled ‘ Those who escape work end up like this ’ sold at Christie 's New York in October 1990 . |
| 2 | Reading schemes have been heavily criticized for a range of reasons . |
| 3 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 4 | When spring had come , the village filled for a week or so with men from the Tibetan villages further north . |
| 5 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 6 | I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job . |
| 7 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 8 | Very busy I have n't stopped for a second . |
| 9 | They were only caught after being stopped for a burglary they did n't commit . |
| 10 | ‘ Just stopped for a look at the map , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 11 | At the top of the Exit Cracks the three men stopped for a rest . |
| 12 | We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past . |
| 13 | Like all new lovers they made love all night , laughed , stopped for a cigarette whose smoke tantalised in the lazy glow of the room . |
| 14 | It was announced on June 26 that three of the four were to be charged with the murder on May 27 of two Australians from London , Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose , who had been shot dead in Roermond in the Netherlands , where they had stopped for a meal , by two gunmen who drove off towards Belgium with a third man . |
| 15 | To verify this the remedy is stopped for a week or two . |
| 16 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 17 | They stood there , breathless , as the steps came nearer , stopped for a moment outside then turned up the corridor . |
| 18 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 19 | Above them , the tiny figure crawling along the top of a pipe stopped for a moment , and then continued . |
| 20 | Suddenly he noticed how pale I was , and stopped for a moment to let me get my breath back . |
| 21 | The bachelor stopped for a moment , while the children 's imaginations took in these wonderful pictures . |
| 22 | At the foot of the steps Lan stopped for a moment to turn and stare back at Joseph . |
| 23 | With a jolt of excitement , as if his heart has stopped for a moment , his mind leaps to the image of a pyramid-shaped mountain . |
| 24 | The singing of the birds stopped for a moment , and then started again . |
| 25 | Then , just as if the world had frozen and stopped for a moment , she saw the woman in the driving seat , face white , eyes glassy with shock , the mouth stretched in a grimace which looked like terror . |
| 26 | We decided to halt the nonsense and stopped for a sandwich on a picturesque rocky outcrop that provided views east and west along the glen , and over to spectacular Knoydart . |
| 27 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 28 | It was received for a variety of voluntary input in Scotland and nationally , but most notably , I gather , in respect of Education and Professional Development , which leads on to my other purpose in writing . |
| 29 | The amount of money received for a service rendered is not dependent upon who you are , but upon the abstract relations within which the service is performed , for example as wage labour . |
| 30 | If a claim is received for a loss of travellers cheques then the Claimant should be advised to claim from the issuing Bank . |