Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 2 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 3 | But in the end he could stand it no longer and went out for a walk . |
| 4 | I always hang up promptly and go out for a nice cup of coffee to cheer myself up . |
| 5 | You 're looking very weary now , do you need to go home and lie down for a bit ? |
| 6 | I 'm going to recommend that you are taken off duty immediately and sent back for a three-month intensive retraining schedule , ’ |
| 7 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 8 | " Why do n't you pop upstairs and lie down for a bit ? |
| 9 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 10 | At the start , the hare dashed off and built such a commanding lead that he decided to relax briefly and lay down for a nap . |