Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 A consortium of eight nuclear organizations had also formed the Nuclear Electricity Information Group , a propagandist organization which began a hard sell for nuclear power .
2 I bought a long yearned for Gimson and Slater leather suite at an outrageous cost of £600 which I paid unfailingly each month over a year .
3 After purchasing Sir Gilbert Scott 's derelict Battersea Power Station , he scheduled a 2.30pm opening for May 21 , 1990 .
4 He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children .
5 They had a long wait for this one , almost an hour .
6 They had planned to fly out to South Africa but had a long wait for visas .
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