Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jahsaxa swept into the tasteful reception room she 'd been keeping Roirbak and Tammuz waiting in for over half an hour . |
| 2 | Sid James , Joan Sims , Kenneth Connor , Charles Hawtrey , Jim Dale and Ken linking up for once with Sheila Hancock in this epic which seemed to satisfy everybody . |
| 3 | Some branches go in for quite lavish posters , some make do with local draughtsmanship . |
| 4 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 5 | But Curbishley had few worries about beating Sunderland once they had had Kay sent off for foolishly retaliating against Walsh . |
| 6 | Having completed the steeplechase , I let the horse canter along for about half a kilometre , then I allow him to walk for nearly a whole kilometre , bearing in mind , you will most likely have to ‘ make up time ’ later on . |
| 7 | Be aware of the time limit : no election campaign goes on for more than three or four weeks in the United Kingdom — be glad about that ! |
| 8 | So while his empire teetered , Mr Bond sailed on for more than three days incom-municado . |
| 9 | DO N'T leave your cooked turkey lying around for too long . |
| 10 | - People start using the curious phrase ‘ Indian Summer ’ if the sun stays out for more than 10 minutes at a time . |
| 11 | The shelling went on for about an hour then almost complete silence descended on the area as I continued to stare to my front . |
| 12 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 13 | A host of chances went begging and they had a cracking goal from John Hartless ruled out for offside . |
| 14 | Some unilateral plant closures can be expected , Campbell predicted — if the crisis goes on for long or gets worse . |
| 15 | If the war goes on for long , the anxieties will increase . |
| 16 | His piece had clearly been written more in anger than in sorrow , the landlord 's indiscrimination coming in for as much disapprobation as the racist high spirits shown by the Young Conservatives . |
| 17 | The war went on for over a thousand years . |
| 18 | For shrews live as long as 1.5 years , while many elephants plod along for over 50 years . |
| 19 | As he knows , I must decide whether to give this matter precedent over the business set down for today or for tomorrow . |
| 20 | As he knows , I have to decide whether his application comes within the Standing Order and , if so , whether a debate should be granted which would take precedence over the business set down for today or tomorrow . |
| 21 | Clutching at the safety of recollection , the Glovers set off for more familiar regions . |
| 22 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 23 | It can not be made up of a wave with a unique value for its wavelength since such a wave stretches on for ever . |
| 24 | He seemed to have talent too , though the neural induction gauntlet was a bit old-fashioned now , even in Schiaparelli where things hang on for ever . |
| 25 | And with his wife gone out for long enough with one of her admirers … |
| 26 | departure indeed from last year where the official parade went on for around 2 hours and there was really very little hint of even a bit of descent . |
| 27 | Beware though , if you leave the bubble meter topped up for too long . |
| 28 | Bobby Robson comes in for just as much a mauling from Neal who wrote : ‘ His attitude to the game was different from anything I had experienced before . |
| 29 | When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week . |
| 30 | When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week . |