Example sentences of "[pron] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour . |
| 2 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 3 | I was n't driving for an hour , you were n't following me for either an hour or forty miles . |
| 4 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 5 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 6 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 7 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 8 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 9 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 10 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 11 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 13 | The images of Führer and Party , which for almost a decade after the ‘ seizure of power ’ had been largely separate and even diametrically opposed , were now starting to blur in public consciousness . |
| 14 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 15 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 16 | After all , as Lanier says ; ‘ This is something — and we have n't had a something for quite a while . ’ |
| 17 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 18 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , I 've been playing around with one for quite a while ; it 's a very nice piece of work . |
| 20 | to do an E C G on this man , well I had n't done one for quite a while and I 'd forgot really , not forgot what to do but I 'm not very familiar with the E C G machines because it 's a new electronic machine and its |
| 21 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 22 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 23 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 24 | She had n't been to see him for nearly a week , but that had happened before when the red-headed lout was staying at the farm . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm . |
| 26 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 27 | I 'm taking him for about an hour . |
| 28 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 29 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 30 | Francesca sounded rattled and hostile , and McLeish gazed at the wall , wondering if he had really been in love with her for over a year . |