Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If you can , try to do some form of exercise that makes you breathe hard for about ten minutes each day . |
| 33 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 34 | What did you come out for then ? |
| 35 | She stood there for perhaps three seconds . |
| 36 | She sat there for nearly half an hour , staring at the wall , trying to get a grip . |
| 37 | Well it wo n't be if you sat there for too long . |
| 38 | We got there for about ten to six . |
| 39 | We got there for about half past twelve in the afternoon . |
| 40 | We sit there for nearly an hour , staring into the house-sized holes , mesmerized by the relentless sound and fury . |
| 41 | We rehearsed there for about two weeks — it was about 90 degrees in there ! ’ |
| 42 | About an hour after we 'd left Sudbury we stopped briefly for under five minutes at a place called Cartier and then went on again . |
| 43 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 44 | We talked together for about two hours . |
| 45 | I was already friendly with Tate , and Eddie knew him through the shop , so we soon made a threesome and we kept together for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 46 | We went out for about two years . |
| 47 | This report examined the particular needs and problems of one-parent families ( one in ten of families with children by 1971 ) , and many of its recommendations had educational implications : expansion of day care and nursery provision , encouragement of pregnant schoolgirls to continue their education , radical changes in the secondary school curriculum and in the careers guidance offered to girls to enable them to compete equally for better paid , traditionally male jobs , greater home-school contacts with more support from guidance staff for children known to be in one-parent families . |
| 48 | Please just let me go early for once ! |
| 49 | Had they not seen in the evening the clouds in the West with seas and lagoons , and in the night the lights of the canoes as they sail on for ever ? |
| 50 | They worked solidly for nearly two hours , through the bad debts , the underpayments , the cash they themselves owed for plant and lubricants . |
| 51 | They worked together for over three years before they fell in love . |
| 52 | They worked together for more than twenty years . |
| 53 | They had n't let him go home for nearly a week ; there was no way he could have coped with his freedom or his family . |
| 54 | They go on for ever . |
| 55 | They fall into some categories do n't they , like the lazy slob , who never does anything , never washes a dish or ne never helps at all around the house , so even though they stay there for about a week . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | They looked around for somewhere to hang it . |
| 58 | Although HARPY and TRACE II ‘ hard-wired ’ the left-to-right decision , they did so for very different reasons . |
| 59 | We saw things like they had yesterday for about four pounds . |
| 60 | They stayed there for about twenty minutes , walked where once there had been fear and intimidation , tried to imagine it as it had been , wondered who 'd died there , whose dreams had been shattered . |