Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Now , I asked you to come over for several reasons . |
| 2 | I also have a girlfriend who went out for several years with a man who did n't wear underpants at all and only washed his jeans once a month . |
| 3 | She stayed here for several days . |
| 4 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 5 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 6 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 7 | In fact , it seemed so for several months . |
| 8 | No one knew how the Lāmri god acquired his reputation for treating mad dogs , but it dated back for several generations . |
| 9 | The new gravestone was already in place , and he worked solidly for several hours in the churchyard , putting the plants carefully into the soft earth of her grave . |
| 10 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 11 | Asked the highlight of this lifetime on the Indian-Pacific , he thought deeply for several stations , before deciding that it was the night a passenger dropped his dentures down the lavatory . |
| 12 | He lay there for several hours , sleeping fitfully , having occasional nightmares , trying to galvanise himself into getting up , and failing because of the absolute exhaustion that appeared to have gripped his limbs . |