Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked on for perhaps forty yards and stopped , lighting a cigarette and looking vaguely in his direction . |
| 2 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know why I held out for so long . ’ |
| 4 | And if I 'm a wicked , evil news reporter , I 'm going to leave out all the nice , positive things that you said , because you went on for so long I 'm interviewing you at half past twelve for the one o'clock news . |
| 5 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 6 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 7 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 8 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 9 | We went out for about two years . |
| 10 | Nick and Carrie were used to timing them now , fairly accurately : they went out for about half an hour and when they came back be was sitting quiet in the kitchen , reading the paper . |
| 11 | They looked around for somewhere to hang it . |
| 12 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 13 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 14 | No , he came out for about ten minutes then he said I 'm going back in the house mummy , just then flopped on the chair |
| 15 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 16 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 17 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 18 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 19 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 20 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 21 | Moreover , the whole process was self-perpetuating ; the guest became the host in an act of social revenge and thus it went on for ever . |
| 22 | It looked as though it went on for ever . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 24 | I do n't think he lay down for quite some time though as he never had any shavings in his mane or tail for weeks but at least he could move about and that relieved quite a few of his problems . |
| 25 | He looked around for somewhere to destroy them . |
| 26 | He searched around for somewhere for them to ride out and try cross-country in earnest , and came up with some tatty farms off the arterial which were within riding distance . |