Example sentences of "for [adj] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fireball that came with the flash lasted for half a second and enveloped the whole stumbling figure . |
| 2 | Vern Clarke , 19 , a London Underground maintenance worker , caused the trial to be aborted , held up court proceedings for half a day and cost the taxpayer more than £7,000 . |
| 3 | They 'd staked out Culley 's flat for half a day and most of the night . |
| 4 | We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town . |
| 5 | Suppressed maternalism it may be , but her passion shines through and she can recall in detail some animals , particularly dogs , that have been dead for half a century and some that did n't even belong to her . |
| 6 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 7 | That is why we have cut interest rates seven times in a year and halved inflation in a year , have the lowest number of strikes for half a century and have cut the basic rate of tax . |
| 8 | Consequently James would be directing The Best of Friends for half the day and Re:Joyce for the other . |
| 9 | They went into free-fall for half the distance and then floated gently down the rest of the way . |
| 10 | Private enterprise now accounts for half the economy and is expanding by 25% a year . |
| 11 | It was a quiet time and I would sit these fellows down for half an hour and take them through what they were doing . |
| 12 | I sat in the cab for half an hour and then this fellow went off . |
| 13 | Then they meet for half an hour and get reconciled . |
| 14 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 15 | Sit down for half an hour and anybody can do it . |
| 16 | I kept them interested for half an hour and now I ca n't even remember what I said . |
| 17 | They talked for half an hour and suddenly upped and went . |
| 18 | A neighbour who heard the bell , a sound she had never heard in all her fifteen years in the street , puzzled over it for half an hour and then went across the road to the school . |
| 19 | They just sit there mesmerized for half an hour and then |
| 20 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 21 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 22 | Then he said I was too innocent to realise how hard it was for him just to see me for half an hour and a kiss and cuddle . ’ |
| 23 | To flap for half an hour and turn to a crust |
| 24 | I 'll be in first thing for half an hour and then I 'm off alright . |
| 25 | Mr Morrison , organiser of the SNP Inverness branch , met two Anglian Water executives , Chris Mellor and Jim Adams , for half an hour and expressed his concerns about the privatisation plans . |
| 26 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 27 | They want somebody here from the for half an hour and them not being served first |
| 28 | Yeah anyhow I think she 's hoping to come to tomorrow cos erm , idea in the air that on Maundy Thursday instead of having an ordinary mums and toddlers we 'll have a in church for half an hour and then a run around cups of coffee with the big toys in the hall , a good idea |
| 29 | Yes , yes , just disappeared , yeah , right , right , well I 'll ask Alistair , oh well uhum , I would n't hold out a lot of hope , huh , somehow , his uhum , he puts in an appearance at the summer fair for half an hour and looks round , says I think I 'll go now , , I 'll leave you to it you know , keep the children , , that 's it , is n't it , his taken our Clare in to buy a tennis racket . |
| 30 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |