Example sentences of "they [verb] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they survive for a long time ? |
| 2 | They kissed for a long time , and indeed there was still longing there , in both of them , a kind of hopeless longing . |
| 3 | They halted for a short time near midafternoon to rest the horses . |
| 4 | There they stood for a long time by a low stone wall , staring hopelessly out at the yellow fields of stubble , where the wheatsheaves were stooked and ready for gathering into the barn . |
| 5 | They stood for a long time in silence , and the others left them alone . |
| 6 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 7 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 8 | This is the best I 've seen them play for a long time Leicester |
| 9 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |