Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |
| 2 | If I cough or something it goes quite for a little while then comes back again . |
| 3 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 4 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 5 | Like the other Acorus species described so far , it grows only for a few months in the aquarium . |
| 6 | It calls instead for a negotiated settlement based on two principles . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 9 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 10 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 11 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 12 | The sudden change of colour on the wall had upset its sense of direction and it buzzed about angrily and eventually it came into the porch where I was sitting and it stayed there for a few minutes and then went outside searching the wall again for the entrance . |