Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] for hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 'll sit and they 'll play for hours with them ! |
| 2 | There , I felt , we could chat for hours without the fear of stepping back absentmindedly and continuing the conversation from a hospital bed in Fort William . |
| 3 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 4 | In a place like this we could scream for hours and no one would hear us . ’ |
| 5 | This attempt to call their parents back could last for hours , days , even for a week or more . |
| 6 | I have found a comfortable position that could last for hours on the sofa in my front room . |
| 7 | She could sit for hours in the sun these days , content to watch Pilade play , doing nothing whatsoever . |
| 8 | I could sit for hours on buses without worrying about how much time I was wasting . |
| 9 | It was the kind of weather Jack Carbery loved , when he could lie for hours , securely wrapped , and sleep — to wake again with the comfortable feeling that a warm meal was near and , after it , a pipe or cigarette and casual conversation with his friends . |
| 10 | Out of costume , he wore Lucie 's cut-down clothes , and would watch for hours the barons of raw meat swing and drip , swing and drip , over wood planks dyed permanently blood-red . |
| 11 | I thought you would sleep for hours . ’ |
| 12 | He would pray for hours and memorize large sections of the Bible . |
| 13 | Their riffs about the current state of their underwear would continue for hours at a time . |
| 14 | He reportedly would sit for hours in a depressive silence , to be broken by a harangue on his pet hates , which included sherry drinkers and those by the name of Hambly . |
| 15 | He would sit for hours , quite silent , watching the assembling of minute coils and springs ; he seemed to find the exactitude satisfying . |
| 16 | I was especially fond of my maternal grandparents ' dog , Luath , an exquisitely patient collie with whom I would sit for hours , pretending or half-pretending that we could read one another 's thoughts . |
| 17 | He would sit for hours with his blindfold down , taking no part in the general conversations , or at best looking at Brian and me , shaking his head when his compatriots said something with which he disagreed . |
| 18 | He never made an effort to look for a job , but would sit for hours , staring at the television and through it without seeing . |
| 19 | You could never tell whose idea was what , because they talked everything to death , but if nothing else , DeFries was a wonderful sounding board as he would talk for hours and hours and hours about every little detail of the show , the order of the set , the music , the albums . |
| 20 | The old man loved to reminisce and would talk for hours about the past . |
| 21 | DeVore laughed , knowing the drug would last for hours yet — would keep him at this peak until he had done with her . |
| 22 | In it Timmy would crawl for hours or pull himself up and stand precariously balancing , his napkin invariably falling about his knees . |
| 23 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 24 | She would lie for hours — days even , for she had lost all interest in time — in an abstraction of pain , her bruised mind slipping and struggling and relapsing into a slough . |
| 25 | I would lie for hours in my sea grey with the remains of bubble bath . |
| 26 | Growing out of childhood involves a great many major changes , so it is not surprising if teenagers seem totally self-absorbed and may sit for hours apparently doing nothing but day-dreaming . |
| 27 | When she 's happy she can sleep for hours in the same position . |
| 28 | You can walk for hours and never see daylight , under the Paris Opera House . |
| 29 | If you can talk for hours in the boot room |
| 30 | He can talk for hours about banking , collegiate music , gardening … |