Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I read for about an hour . |
| 2 | But I looked for only a moment . |
| 3 | yeah , oh well I did for quite a while |
| 4 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 5 | I slept for only a short time each night , and I did not eat much food . |
| 6 | The next Saturday , armed with my pocket money , I waited for about an hour before the cheap-jack came to the knives , which after a lot of spiel were offered for sixpence — all I possessed . |
| 7 | I waited for quite a long time . |
| 8 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 9 | now if I tape for about an hour and a half or an hour and then rewind it , it 'll go |
| 10 | Nothing happens for quite a while , then the rod-tip trembles , so I hold the rod in one hand and the line in the other . |
| 11 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's very thick with the new master , Humphrey Morris , which counts for quite a lot , ’ Bridget said thoughtfully . |
| 13 | And it does so in syntax which calls for quite a feat of structuring and interpreting . |
| 14 | Perhaps we will refer later to the blatant dishonesty — I am sorry , I must watch my language ; let us say something bordering on the dishonest — of the suggestion that we can have a banding system which avoids for ever the problem of revaluation . |
| 15 | Like the desert after a flash flood , Freshers ' Fair is decorated by societies which bloom for just a day . |
| 16 | The latest move comes at a time when ICI 's £1.2bn a year pharmaceutical division , which accounts for around a fifth of group trading profits , is set to emerge from a relatively fallow period . |
| 17 | It is early days yet and the first division contains only nine teams ( next season the number will be upped to 11 ) which accounts for only a small percentage of Ireland 's playing strength . |
| 18 | But Keebler , the troubled biscuits and snack maker , which accounts for about a third of UB sales , has been caught short by price competition in a recession-stricken US market . |
| 19 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 20 | European turnover was $100m for the year , which accounted for nearly a third of Sequent 's total sales . |
| 21 | The withdrawal of the other two brands , which accounted for 850f the injections , came after a ‘ small number ’ of children got ‘ mumps-meningitis ’ . |
| 22 | Motor vehicles , which accounted for almost a third of the UK trade deficit in 1988 , are closing the gap — thanks partly to the Sunderland factory established by Nissan . |
| 23 | Nothing happened for about an hour . |
| 24 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 25 | Agatha Christie recounts in An Autobiography how , when she was on the point of creating Poirot , she toyed for just a little with the notion of a schoolboy detective . |
| 26 | However I am pursuing that with the Property Services Department , who act for both the Council and the Board , and they have given authority for us to enter the land for the purpose of drilling bore-holes etc . |
| 27 | But the association of menstrual blood pollutes her and she loses for ever the pristine purity of a female child . |
| 28 | We think she corroded for only a matter of weeks before being colonised . |
| 29 | She hesitated for barely a moment before nodding her head in affirmation . |
| 30 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |