Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [adj] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 2 | At night the harbour lights up and the atmosphere becomes electric as the streets of Aghios Nikolaos fill up with people looking for a good time in the restaurants , bars and discos . |
| 3 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 4 | When bought in large pieces , such hams may be further enhanced by baking for a short time in a hot oven with a glaze of either honey , ginger syrup , marmalade mixed with orange juice or fruit syrups . |
| 5 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 6 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 7 | After leaving the magazine , Caroline worked for a short time in the Cardiff newsroom . |
| 8 | The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking . |
| 9 | She lay for a long time in the enveloping warmth of the bath-water , feeling a strange sense of sadness . |
| 10 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |
| 11 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 12 | He deliberated for a long time in front of the pad , and then suddenly rose and put it away without writing anything . |
| 13 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 14 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 15 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 16 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 17 | When he had gone , she stood for a long time in front of the looking-glass that hung over the fire , her hands pressed to her cheeks , her face quite alive with excitement . |
| 18 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 19 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 20 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 21 | And he sat for a long time in a melancholy reverie as the ants continued to drift down , thinking of the futility of all endeavour . |
| 22 | Certainly , a residence requirement which consisted of a requirement to have resided for a certain time in the country before a self-employed occupation could be taken up would involve covert discrimination , because it would be satisfied virtually automatically by nationals and would therefore affect nationals of other member states , if not exclusively , at least chiefly . |