Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 2 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 3 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 4 | It was then seen to pitch up for several seconds and then pitch down with increasing engine noise . |
| 5 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 6 | He reached Britain this week , but then refused to turn up for several arranged interviews and acted aggressively enough to justify his old nickname , Killer . |
| 7 | After managing to hold out for several months against Paul 's pressurising , she had agreed to the engagement only a few days before this trip . |
| 8 | Leave to dry out for several hours . |