Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute . |
| 2 | In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Should n't think so for a minute , knowing him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I should n't think so for a moment , ’ said Rufus , whose speech grew more precise when he was drunk . |
| 5 | ‘ I should n't think so for a moment . ’ |
| 6 | I should n't think so for a minute darling . |
| 7 | If she would like the family and close friends to gather together for a meal or light refreshments after the service and committal , you will of course have prepared for this beforehand . |
| 8 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 9 | ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’ |
| 10 | Resting only for a second |
| 11 | She did not have to wait long for a train . |
| 12 | Dirk Coetzee did n't have to wait long for a really big job . |
| 13 | More so at that time when companies were culled from post-war part-blackout part-music hall Britain to cling together for a while on what usually became the wreckage of a production . |
| 14 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 15 | Does the television studio , in which a group of academics are gathered together for a discussion on an ‘ academic ’ issue , count as an academic setting ? |
| 16 | It argues that renewable energies are not developed enough for a higher goal , but if more money for research was made available , the future could be very different . |
| 17 | IN SEPTEMBER , a group of 50 people met together for a week of prayer at Our Lady of Good Counsel , Leeds . |
| 18 | In true pilgrim tradition we prayed and did penance together and we also took our recreation together and we also took our recreation together and so on Wednesday evening we met together for a very happy celebration . |
| 19 | Recollecting that she had no money with her , Clare asked only for a cup of tea ; but Len made her and Bridget sit down while he queued , and returned with a loaded tray . |
| 20 | Their exports were not always spectacular but their industries produced enough for a growing domestic market . |
| 21 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 22 | We lived together for a while . ’ |
| 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 | So much so that even when I had abandoned hopes of luring her into my narrow and uncomfortable bed , we frequently got together for a drink or a cheap meal . |
| 25 | A group of directors and employees got together for a discussion group and the resulting lively debate was recorded on a video currently doing the rounds of BNFL sites . |
| 26 | " Collection " covers " a collection got together for a temporary purpose " , but not one " made or exhibited for the purpose of effecting sales or other commercial dealings " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 29 | It was already beginning to fill up with French businessmen , and Jean-Paul made purposefully for a table in the window . |
| 30 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |