Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] for [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room . |
| 2 | For the next hour , Matilda kept practising , and in the end she had managed , by the sheer power of her eyes , to lift the whole cigar clear off the table about six inches into the air and hold it there for about a minute . |
| 3 | He did n't see her again for quite a while . |
| 4 | Glasgow District Council decided last month to release its £90,000 grant for 1992-93 to the RSNO after holding it back for almost a year . |
| 5 | I stuck it out for about an hour , and then could not stand another minute . |
| 6 | And it fucked it up for about a second or three seconds afterwards . |
| 7 | The wire hangers rang together like bells and kept it up for almost a minute . |
| 8 | and er , this is what I , this is what I wanted , to tie to the flagpole and left him there for about an hour he had his pasting as well . |