Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [adj] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 2 | ‘ The attack went on for a long time and the victim is obviously very shocked , ’ said police . |
| 3 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 4 | One pauper was locked up for a short time and when let out he was very quiet and all of them have been so since . ’ |
| 5 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |
| 6 | Oddly enough , I found that I could keep the port wing up for a considerable time and , as I lost flying speed and I came nearer and nearer to the Engineering Wing area , the port wing happily stayed in the air until my speed was very low indeed and then gradually — and I did not think of this — one ( and only one ) of the prop blades gently ploughed into the rather soft earth , My port wing was still in the air , and ever so gently we made a beautiful semi-turn to port . |