Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they appeared to vanish altogether for several years to return mysteriously to look , to whistle and back chat . |
| 2 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 3 | When he died in 1800 , Mrs. Smith took over her husband 's duties and continued to do so for several years , to the satisfaction of the directors . |
| 4 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 5 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 6 | Kersey and Wycliffe had worked together for several years and their temperaments complemented each other . |
| 7 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 8 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 9 | He reached Britain this week , but then refused to turn up for several arranged interviews and acted aggressively enough to justify his old nickname , Killer . |
| 10 | He remained doubled over for several seconds before slowly straightening up and wiping the sweat from his forehead . |