Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for what [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A piece of rope was tied to it but the knot was difficult to undo and , after fiddling with it for what felt like hours , he still could n't pry it loose . |
| 2 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 3 | The Americans must have felt as if he was taking revenge on them for what had happened , but they had the final laugh since most of Rank 's films were n't very good . |
| 4 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 5 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 6 | He looked at her for what felt a long time , seemed about to say something more , but in the end let the moment pass . |
| 7 | Julius stared at her for what seemed like an extraordinarily long time . |