Example sentences of "for several [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several minutes they talked of this and that . |
| 2 | For several minutes they drove in silence , then Tom began to speak his thoughts aloud , glancing briefly at Belinda every now and then but mostly keeping his narrowed eyes firmly fixed on the road . |
| 3 | For several minutes he saw nothing in the shimmering haze of the plain . |
| 4 | For several minutes he stood outside the hut , drenched to the skin , listening to the muffled sounds with a growing sense of desolation . |
| 5 | For several minutes she heard them splashing and laughing in the water , then gradually quiet returned to the camp . |
| 6 | For several minutes she had nothing more to say . |
| 7 | For several minutes I pull and give line in turn as the fish sulks and flaps its tail at the surface . |
| 8 | For several hours they appeared to make little progress ; they were traversing a barren region of fine sand and yellowish clay , broken only by a few stunted , prickly bushes . |
| 9 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 10 | For several hours we explored the island , two humps of rock , spectacularly eroded , joined by a narrow ridge . |
| 11 | For several hours she had hidden in the service area , biding her time , finding her courage again . |
| 12 | For several hours I accepted this absurdity . |
| 13 | For several moments they stood in silence . |
| 14 | He turned into the one occupied by his stepmother , switched off the motor , and for several moments they sat looking at the house whose drawn blinds and closed windows seemed to proclaim its emptiness . |
| 15 | For several moments it seemed as if he might refuse to go with her , then he decided that he would . |
| 16 | For several moments he made no reply , then he sent her an enquiring glance as he said , ‘ May I ask a favour ? ’ |
| 17 | For several decades they have been studying superbly preserved fossils from the rocks of the Burgess shale , found in the Canadian Rockies , which are among the earliest fossils of complicated organisms . |
| 18 | British Airways legal director Merwyn Walker says : ‘ For several months we have endured a campaign of very serious allegations made against us by Virgin and Branson . |
| 19 | In addition , large numbers of drifter buoys were launched into the ocean off Peru and for several months they were tracked via the Argos satellite as they drifted with the surface currents . |
| 20 | For several months it has been obvious that the oil market is , as Joseph Stanislaw of Cambridge Energy Research Associates puts it , long on crude . |
| 21 | For several months he had been finding rings of stones , surrounding a large boulder which was often topped with melted wax . |
| 22 | As Mr Myer had been on duty under somewhat arduous conditions for several months he decided that his nerves were playing tricks on him and that he was having hallucinations . |
| 23 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 24 | For several weeks we were denied access to our grandson . |
| 25 | For several weeks he scurried back and forth in the corridors of power , trying to patch together an arrangement for co-operation with the Tory dissidents . |
| 26 | So for several weeks she was never asked to stand still with a rider on her back . |
| 27 | For several days we struggled with the wind and waves , but at last the storm died away and the sea was calm again . |
| 28 | For several days he was at death 's door , and a grave had been kept ready in case the worst happened . |
| 29 | For several days he had been watching the moor through the telescope . |
| 30 | The Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda suggested that one of the reasons why Pogosyan was resigning was that for several days he had been unable to secure an audience with Gorbachev to discuss developments in Armenia . |