Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] for [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station .
2 Olwen has hers on for half an hour of a morning , Joe puts it on at half eight and dead on nine o'clock that immersion 's turned off .
3 So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour .
4 But you 've got ta have it on for half an hour have n't we Scott ?
5 But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed .
6 What we have to do is start looking at all the things that make that possible and try and do something else for all the things that do n't help you fill it .
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