Example sentences of "[vb past] for [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hummed and hawed for quite a while about it , but in the end I asked him if you were getting any visitors , and if not , I said , must n't you be feeling pretty lonely , and that did it . |
| 2 | Yet I tried and tried for over a week thinking I ought to for his sake . |
| 3 | But the illness lingered for over a year , and in the end the doctor decided that she must be suffering from depression . |
| 4 | We think she corroded for only a matter of weeks before being colonised . |
| 5 | As Sunday Life revealed two weeks ago , McGlinchey worked for over a year as a sales representative for Cornhill , which has hundreds of RUC men as clients . |
| 6 | If the wind died for just a moment ; if she could just get a clear sight of the cockpit … |
| 7 | Shiona thought for only a moment . |
| 8 | Jenna managed for almost a month . |
| 9 | But I looked for only a moment . |
| 10 | But more than anything else Sarah craved for even a glimpse of Angel . |
| 11 | She hesitated for barely a moment before nodding her head in affirmation . |
| 12 | She took off the outer layer of her clothes , hesitated for just a moment , and then peeled off her underwear . |
| 13 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |
| 14 | Denis hesitated for only a moment before surrendering to his instinct to meet kindness with kindness . |
| 15 | He hesitated for only a moment , then glanced briefly at Alexandra and said , ‘ I should be happy to . ’ |
| 16 | By the end of the year he had obtained livery of his spiritualities and temporalities , although a protracted and bitter dispute ensued for over a year with Archbishop Walter Reynolds [ q.v. ] over the sums Hamo claimed as due to him for vacancy , during which the see of Rochester had been in the archbishop 's hands . |
| 17 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 18 | yeah , oh well I did for quite a while |
| 19 | When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake , he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths . |
| 20 | Ellen paused for just a fraction of a second before she answered , ‘ Yes ; yes , I suppose it would . ’ |
| 21 | The strike lasted for virtually a year , ending in April 1985 . |
| 22 | Dawn 's nervousness while she was attached to my hand lasted for quite a while and there was nothing I could do about it other than reassure her . |
| 23 | I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley . |
| 24 | That situation only lasted for about a year and of course soon er the army was portrayed as the enemy , particularly by the I R A and the republican party and the republican population . |
| 25 | In spite of the difficulties of organizing and sustaining such an action in conditions of clandestinity , it continued for almost a week — an unprecedented event in the Franco regime . |
| 26 | They waited for nearly a minute for something to happen . |
| 27 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 28 | She had for nearly a month washed fanatically , with all the clarity and determination of which five-year-olds are capable . |
| 29 | Thus , in 1982 the top 100 quoted companies accounted for well over half the turnover , profit , and capital employed of the top 1000 companies , and within the top 100 , the top 10 accounted for over a quarter of turnover and capital . |
| 30 | Although late rebleeding often occurred and resulted in readmission to hospital , it accounted for only a minority of deaths . |