Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you only got up for a coffee ? |
| 2 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 3 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 4 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 5 | They all just came back for a regular routine follow up , just a little bit late . |
| 6 | Specifically , in the case of Anthony Miers , the Royal Navy submariner who finally came in for a teeny bit of criticism over his methods of disposing of German seamen who rather inconveniently surrendered . |
| 7 | She said oh no I just rang up for a chat . |
| 8 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 9 | " I just looked in for a moment to see how you were getting on together . |
| 10 | As he hit the water , his legs flailed in the mid-air running motion like a character in a Tom and Jerry cartoon and he quickly struck out for a convenient ladder as I hastily brought Venturous to a standstill some feet off the pier . |
| 11 | Here and elsewhere , the police also came in for a fair amount of criticism — Punch portrayed London 's genial giants Gog and Magog dressed as policeman , defending themselves from the wrath of the respectable populace — and there were perfectly sound reasons for such discontent . |
| 12 | Fibres also went in for a spot of acquisition , buying into the British texturizing industry to give downstream processing capability . |
| 13 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 14 | He went hunting in Grasmere , and often stayed on for a party in the evening after a hunt . |
| 15 | Ramsey presumably leant out for a breath of air . |
| 16 | It is possible that I even dozed off for a few seconds , exhausted by the day 's work . |
| 17 | We even split up for a while . |
| 18 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |
| 19 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 20 | Then got up for a pee . |
| 21 | He paced the room , then lay down for a while , hands clasped behind his head . |
| 22 | Left the daddy 's list with Mr Moore ( of Moore 's Models ) and then went off for a bit of a stroll around . |
| 23 | Newlove then dived over for a try of his own , with late scores from Offiah and Schofield rubbing salt in Welsh wounds . |
| 24 | SCUNTHORPE , down to 10 men for more than an hour , equalised , forced extra time and then held out for a second replay . |
| 25 | Tell him , said Jo said you never called in for a quick , I do n't mind David he 's alright |
| 26 | We actually split up for a few days because his mother sent a Christmas card to him and not to me . |