Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] for [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it .
2 Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it .
3 You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology .
4 If the Government want to fetch every one of those issues to the Floor of the House , I am quite prepared to do exactly the same , and every day we shall have points of order that go on for half an hour
5 We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts .
6 Ah shut up for half an hour now will you ?
7 So anyway off we goes course when we come back for half an hour at ten o'clock well out of the other machine were n't it ?
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