Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 2 | go and se stand in there for half an hour ! |
| 3 | ‘ Just stand there laughing ; I could drown in here for all you care ! |
| 4 | Will you have enough to do down there for that length of time Christine ? |
| 5 | A whole complex system of muscles is brought into paly for each movement of the body : bending an arm involves the shortening of the biceps , while the tricep muscles at the back of the arm must relax and lengthen in unison . |
| 6 | Are there refreshments laid on particularly for those governors coming straight from work ? |
| 7 | The race could have been laid on especially for that horse you rode before . |
| 8 | It was left for just for half an hour at the Westgate Centre in Oxford , which according to the AA is the one of the worst car parks in South East England for security . |
| 9 | And have you worked in here for many years ? |
| 10 | You 'd be glad to get in there for half an hour but you would n't risk more than half an hour . |
| 11 | Again this is a common and ‘ normal ’ reaction , but many people feel so ashamed of thoughts like these that they hardly dare express them unless they feel safe enough to do so and trust the person they are talking to sufficiently for such a revelation to seem acceptable . |
| 12 | I would prefer to see a straight Rocky-Strachan swap ( as I expected last year ) but I guess the wee man is still playing to well for this . |
| 13 | However , at least 80 per cent of such jobs were not lost but were retained at least for another day , many in viable foreign TNCs , and it would not be logical to criticize the whole policy because of setbacks . |
| 14 | The line continued beyond there for another two miles , up three self-acting inclines to the quarries . |
| 15 | There is too the fact that the original letter or document is charged with an emotion , an urgency , and an immediacy , to which the later printed record can never pretend At least for some — and probably for more than is generally imagined — the original document , letter or journal is the best door into the past . |
| 16 | You know , they wan na not for that , that you know , a couple of hours you keep a kid amused by well a |