Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places . |
| 2 | I lived there for nearly four years , until the spring of 1919 . |
| 3 | I was only born there and I lived there for about six months and then got taken out . |
| 4 | I sit there for quite a bit , hunched up on the pavement . |
| 5 | I have stopped erm , I stopped once for well over a year and er , I went back to smoking shortly after the death of my mother , who incidentally , died of a smoking related disease . |
| 6 | My constituents who are in prison — I hope not for too long — are becoming increasingly disaffected . |
| 7 | I walked on for perhaps forty yards and stopped , lighting a cigarette and looking vaguely in his direction . |
| 8 | I get up for about half four and |
| 9 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 10 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 11 | But I go on for ever … ‘ |
| 12 | I go in for really frumpy underwear . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It was such a cold day , ’ said Ianthe , ‘ and you 're not allowed to eat in the Public Record Office , so I thought just for once … = ’ She stopped , feeling that too much attention was being drawn to her and that they ought to be getting on with their work , especially as the Ash Wednesday service had made them late coming back from lunch . |
| 14 | And I 'm angry that I 'm not doing anything , ’ so I thought maybe for once I could use my name — my fame — in a constructive way and maybe make it heard above that dreadful silence . |
| 15 | I went away for about five days , six |
| 16 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 17 | I stay there for quite a bit , looking round and that , till it gets light . |
| 18 | I stay there for quite a while , until I get real good and warm . |
| 19 | So I cast around for somewhere else and we found this , in a very poor state of repair . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know why I held out for so long . ’ |
| 21 | For about three weeks I sat constantly for about four hours a day with Dawn perched on my fist , watching TV or listening to the radio , quietly trying to make it seem as if this were the most natural thing in the world for a boy and his owl to be doing . |
| 22 | I sat there for about ten minutes and then I came out . |
| 23 | Sometimes she 'd keep me waiting there for over an hour while she scanned the surroundings through 180 degrees , over and over again . |
| 24 | Many companies distribute their disks through Transend for you to try out for up to 90 days . |
| 25 | Would you like there for tomorrow ? |
| 26 | Okay , so the level whatever you set up for today , will still be that way , unless you change it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That 's what you went there for then . |
| 30 | Accompanied by Manuel Garcia Morante , she sang superbly for over an hour , and gave everyone the greatest joy . |