Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 2 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 3 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 4 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 5 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 6 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 7 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 8 | Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for the Guides Association said yesterday : ‘ She worked here for a short while and I suppose it was just a job to her . ’ |
| 10 | She thought carefully for a few moments before she said , ‘ Silas — are n't you being unreasonable and somewhat unfair to both yourself and to Doreen ? ’ |
| 11 | She struggled furiously for a few seconds but her former strength was lost to her . |
| 12 | She competed successfully for a post-doctoral research fellowship at one of the less fashionable women 's colleges . |
| 13 | She stayed there for a long time . |
| 14 | She stood there for a long time , thinking the whole thing out . |
| 15 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 16 | She sat there for a few seconds , then heard a voice softly calling her name . |
| 17 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 18 | We settled instead for a three-hour five-course fish lunch at the Mont Frety in town , not far from the cablecar station . |
| 19 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |
| 20 | At the summit cairn on Shunner Fell , we paused only for a few seconds to look towards Swaledale and back towards Mallerstang before moving on . |
| 21 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |
| 22 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 23 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 24 | The last time Iraq threatened Kuwait , in 1966 , the Brits flew 6000 troops into the principality where they sweated quietly for a few summer weeks until , the point having been taken , no more was heard about Iraq 's 19th province . |
| 25 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | They stayed away for a few years , moving between the markets of the Sahel , exploiting differences in prices in different markets , until they had enough camels to go to Cairo . |
| 27 | They stood there for a few more seconds , staring at each other . |
| 28 | They stood together for a few moments , her head sunk in his mighty chest , his head finally bowed as he looked down on her . |
| 29 | They sat there for a long time , drinking their milk , gazing out at the grey drizzle while the Bārakotes told them stories about their home in the south , about the brightly coloured saris that the women wear , about the bazaars , and all the shops and stalls with beads and bangles , oranges , lemons , spices , chilli . |
| 30 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |