Example sentences of "[pron] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 2 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 3 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 4 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 7 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 12 | After all , as Lanier says ; ‘ This is something — and we have n't had a something for quite a while . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I 've been playing around with one for quite a while ; it 's a very nice piece of work . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Mayli stared at him for just a second , then realised that the waiter would have given the alarm by now . |
| 18 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 26 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 27 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
| 28 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |
| 29 | goes to her for quite a while and she was saying , Oh I do n't think Shavina likes me . |
| 30 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |