Example sentences of "we [vb past] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time |
| 2 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 3 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 4 | We settled instead for a three-hour five-course fish lunch at the Mont Frety in town , not far from the cablecar station . |
| 5 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 6 | Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did . |
| 7 | We went in for a closer look . |
| 8 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 9 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 10 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 11 | At the summit cairn on Shunner Fell , we paused only for a few seconds to look towards Swaledale and back towards Mallerstang before moving on . |
| 12 | On my first visit , we sat together for a long time , talking of this and that . |