Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearce said : ‘ We always planned to try for a drop goal whenever we were in the French 20 metre area . |
| 2 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 3 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 4 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 5 | Union officer DEBORAH LEON , 32 , of Guisborough , Cleveland , perished heading for a month 's trekking holiday . |
| 6 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 7 | Coming to Old Gang Smelting Mills we stopped to look for a while at the most complete collection of buildings still standing in the mining field , although comparing them now with photographs taken in the 1930s it 's obvious that they 're slowly falling apart . |
| 8 | ‘ If I tell anyone that we stopped to look for a ghost , they 'll laugh at me , and if I was you , I would n't tell your mates either . |
| 9 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 10 | Shlomo Green stopped speaking for a moment . |
| 11 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 12 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 13 | He pulled at his Mum 's coat and she stopped talking for a minute . |
| 14 | She pretended to think for a moment . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's time you stopped waving for a minute and listened to me . |
| 16 | Milwall just caught sleeping for a moment can get a good ball in for here and Hendry it 's an own goal . |
| 17 | DEC quit looking for an Alpha RISC second source when it became apparent foundries were n't willing to make the kind of investment needed without knowing whether the thing was really going to take off , says Electronic News . |
| 18 | And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’ |
| 19 | She seemed to wait for an initiative from her friend . |
| 20 | But they 're not so — ’ The offworlder seemed to search for a word . |
| 21 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 22 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 23 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 24 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 25 | One matron declared that if Ms Wilikins-the accent was on the Ms — came looking for a seat in Camberley she would receive short shrift . |
| 26 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 27 | His regrets about not meeting Tyson might evaporate if they opened the gates of the Indiana youth centre tomorrow , especially as Holyfield seemed made for an opponent who is currently America 's most famous jailbird . |
| 28 | While Diana seemed destined for a life of unskilled , low-paying jobs , she was not that much out of the ordinary for girls of her class and background . |
| 29 | Then three years ago , she lost her hearing and seemed destined for a life of isolation before she underwent the operation . |
| 30 | He seemed destined for a career as an engineer like his father , but with much brighter prospects . |