Example sentences of "[adv prt] for most [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |
| 2 | Bear in mind , however , that most of the work I was doing was word processing , which allows the hard disk to be powered down for most of the time . |
| 3 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 4 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 5 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 6 | He 'd sat up for most of the night brooding about it , wondering what her reaction to him would be , finally deciding that he could n't wait until the evening to find out . |
| 7 | ‘ Charles was up for most of the night . |
| 8 | Noting that landladies still hoofed boarders out for most of the day , Butlin saw how the holiday-makers would shelter in his amusement parks when it rained . |
| 9 | They were both out for most of the time , and my mother was torn between relief that they were n't under her feet all the time and resentment that they were treating her house like an hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |