Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So put that down for a second will we ? |
| 2 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 3 | Well Michael , right I 'm gon na turn this off for a bit |
| 4 | Turn that off for a minute |
| 5 | Turn that off for a minute . |
| 6 | cos , turn that off for a minute |
| 7 | Alan was likely in for a treat ? |
| 8 | I do n't suppose I 'll be able to take it all in for a while . |
| 9 | Cos I think we 're all in for a chance to getting it now , fifty thousand |
| 10 | While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning . |
| 11 | Over the past year , I 've come across a dozen or more men of my age who are with women who simply are n't willing to give it all up for a baby . |
| 12 | Mary 's fiancé , Johnny , who was a sergeant motor mechanic on one of the bomber air fields in Yorkshire , came down to visit her and took us all out for a drink one evening . |
| 13 | 442 all out for a lead of 157 , leaving England again with two days to survive . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not due back for a while , ’ Sanchez said . |
| 15 | She 's in East Africa — not due back for a couple of months . |
| 16 | Can I have that back for a minute and I 'll just explain one of the erm a bit more of the structure of it . |
| 17 | But I was n't to find that out for a while yet . |
| 18 | How do they er , work that out for a housewife . |
| 19 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not trying to work all that out for a start , ’ she went on . |
| 21 | We let this carry that out for a month or so , and he was very annoyed about it . |
| 22 | Was I in for a shock or what ? |
| 23 | It 's time for a change if they want to survive , and first up for a face-lift is their music . |
| 24 | ‘ She invited us both down for a drink . ’ |
| 25 | Their devotion was apparent when we took them both out for a walk . |