Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [det] [art] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | " To a pint of cream put a pound of double-refined sugar , the juice of seven lemons , grate the rinds of two lemons into a pint of white wine , add half a pint of sack , then put them all into a deep pot , and whisk them for half an hour , put it into glasses the night before you want it : it is better for standing two or three days , but it will keep a week if required . " |
| 3 | He wondered how much it would cost to buy her for half an hour . |
| 4 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 5 | But Charlton joint manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ They slaughtered us for half an hour — but only half an hour . |
| 6 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 8 | I only saw him for half an hour . |
| 9 | sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points . |
| 10 | they leave it for half an hour . |
| 11 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 12 | But actually I had her for half an hour to the commands and everything . |
| 13 | We stayed in a cheap boarding-house from which the landlord saw fit to evict us for all the hours of daylight ; strolling abroad , we devoted our time to churchgoing and to incoherent altercations with the Italian police . |