Example sentences of "and [verb] for [det] a hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 2 | King : Sweet Emma , you remember far too well The jeers and cat-calls mingled with the praise When you did sing and dance for half an hour In your own TV show . |
| 3 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 4 | A perfect way to serve them is in a tart of shortcrust pastry , mixed with three or four free-range eggs and plenty of sugar , and baked for half an hour or so in a medium-hot oven . |
| 5 | It can also involve destruction of furniture , hitting people , hurting themselves , and screaming for half an hour or more . |
| 6 | Fifteen miles south of Garberville my eyes began to close and I pulled over and slept for half an hour . |
| 7 | So I took another — four hundred and thirty this time — and a seat and waited for half an hour . |