Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jasper went , was gone it seemed only for a minute , came back to say that they would be welcome . |
| 2 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 3 | It hung there for a moment . |
| 4 | And it 's got the drawer underneath it , it clipped underneath for a thingy |
| 5 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
| 6 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 7 | Wind was measured at 11.00 and 15.00 each day , but only counted if it kept up for an hour or more . |
| 8 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 9 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 10 | It proved enough for a most handsome victory over decidedly off-colour Ontario and it was an enormous pity that Rod Snow , the dynamic Newfoundland no.8 , sustained a neck injury that kept him out of the final . |
| 11 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 12 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 13 | It glittered eerily for a second and exploded , forming a cloud of tinsel . |
| 14 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |
| 15 | But it remained still for a moment and there was the shimmer of silver about the boy 's head . |
| 16 | After that it picked up for a while , and we looked quite sharp again . |