Example sentences of "[vb past] for a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were n't so much being difficult as simply teasing , and it made for a very amusing if unproductive hour . |
| 2 | On a more positive note , the expedition did make port at the appointed hour on the appointed day , having spent several hours in a public house further up the estuary to avoid being early , which made for a very ‘ happy ’ reunion . |
| 3 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |
| 4 | From a therapeutic aspect , penicillin was marvellous because it cured many dangerous bacterial infections , but it was tiresome because it was inactive by mouth ( it was destroyed by the acidity of the stomach contents ) , it acted for a very short time ( it was rapidly excreted by the kidneys ) and so was of little value unless given by injection at intervals of not longer than 3 hours , and because , after a time , the normal processes of evolution led to the appearance of resistant strains of the microbes which had previously been sensitive to penicillin . |
| 5 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 6 | ‘ It was my responsibility as a project to establish the whole thing , ’ he said proudly , adding that his work at Newcastle called for a very broad range of expertise . |
| 7 | It reads : ‘ Went for a very long bike ride and I was n't tired but Dad was knackered . ’ |
| 8 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 9 | You know when they said , when they went for a very radical policy |
| 10 | The saturation resulted in rain , which fell for a very long time . |
| 11 | Then , as we saw in the previous chapter , it was introduced in Scotland in 1989 and in England and Wales in 1990 , but it lasted for a very short period . |
| 12 | The man at Capital told me to hold on , and I waited for a very long time . |
| 13 | Miranda fled , unseeing down the dark passage to the lavatory where she sat for a very long time feeling sick to her stomach . |