Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for Louise Butler had been going on for over two days . |
| 2 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 3 | and he 'd been a Liverpool councillor off and on for over fifty years . |
| 4 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 5 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 6 | Investigations into the activities of this particular smuggling gang had been going on for nearly twelve months prior to the climax of Yashmak and were initiated in Sussex . |
| 7 | The affair had been going on for nearly two years . |
| 8 | Although its voluntary recruits diminished , the order had managed to limp on for nearly two centuries under Ixmarity 's watchful eye . |
| 9 | On for nearly another hundred years , and we are with yet another poet , whose early work was written under the pen-name of Owen Meredith . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt that if the game had gone on for just five more minutes , then we could even have won it . |
| 11 | There was too much going on for just one person to deal with . |
| 12 | So West Indies won by an innings and 156 runs ; yet had England managed to hold on for just another three or four minutes they would have got a draw , for the heavens opened and further play would have been impossible . |
| 13 | This saga has gone on for quite some time . |
| 14 | I 'm actually concerned that if we , did anybody know about this issue earlier on because I think this has been going on for quite some time erm probably over the last two years and if anyone did know then why did n't they address it before and if anyone did n't know , why not ? |
| 15 | It 's going on for quite some time . |
| 16 | Most reckon that , with the holding in Hanson 's balance sheet as a fixed asset , Lord Hanson will probably hold on for maybe 18 months before placing it with an alternative international predator . |
| 17 | I 've had my hat on for fully five minutes . " |
| 18 | That 's why it is expensive compared to eh , other cars , but , they , they seemed to go on for ever those cars , I mean they 're quite incredible are n't they ? |
| 19 | These began around 1947 and went on for about two years . |
| 20 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 21 | The wax is on for about two minutes , and it takes two seconds to pull it off . |
| 22 | He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday . |
| 23 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 24 | ‘ I left the treatment on for about 10 minutes but I did n't really have the time to use a plastic cap . |
| 25 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |
| 26 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 27 | Apply , comb through , put on a plastic bath cap to keep in the heat and leave on for about 20–30 minutes . |
| 28 | Would one light on for about seven hours per day stop algae growth altogether ? |
| 29 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 30 | ‘ She does n't come on for about ten minutes . ’ |