Example sentences of "for a [adj] time [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infra-red detectors are very effective devices — they react to body heat , and will leave lights on for a predetermined time after they first sense body heat . |
| 2 | You must have been in full-time employment for a fixed time before you can claim ? |
| 3 | We were playing for a long time before we ever had a deal , and when we eventually got signed by a big company , they pretty much took us for what we were . |
| 4 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
| 5 | Soapy moved on , but he walked for a long time before he tried again . |
| 6 | He was screaming for a long time before he fell , and we could hear that he was running as he screamed . |
| 7 | I went out with Anne for a long time before she decided to marry Alfred , or he decided to marry her . |
| 8 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 9 | But she , you know , it was built for a long time before she got anything in it . |
| 10 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 11 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 12 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 13 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 14 | Thought for a long time before I hit on that . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , Daouad , you will not see the Sukkariya again for a long time unless you answer my questions . ’ |
| 16 | In bed that night , Evelyn and Rose talked in whispers for a long time after they were sure that everyone else was asleep . |
| 17 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 18 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 19 | I was thinking , for a long time after you left . |
| 20 | Her daughter Jessica wrote a letter to the New York court saying : ‘ Please make Amy Fisher stay in jail for a long time so she ca n't hurt my mom again . ’ |
| 21 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 22 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 23 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 24 | I did n't always agree with her Chopin , and her Liszt was a disaster area , but I 'd listen to her for a long time if it 's Schumann . |
| 25 | She was my friend for a long time because we got on really well together . |
| 26 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 27 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 28 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 29 | Unable to return to his seat , too scared even to hide in the toilets , he had hovered in the shadows by the door for a long time until he spotted Sweetheart climbing from a car parked on the other side of the street . |
| 30 | He may need to stay in pyjamas and dressing gown for a long time until he can learn how to cope with normal clothes . |