Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 2 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 3 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 4 | ‘ It might be my last chance to entertain you for some time to come . ’ |
| 5 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |