Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |
| 2 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 3 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 4 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 5 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 6 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 7 | Look forward to your future with optimism , even though you may have been feeling held back for some time . |