Example sentences of "i [vb past] for [adv] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | And I read for about an hour . |
| 2 | But I looked for only a moment . |
| 3 | yeah , oh well I did for quite a while |
| 4 | I slept for only a short time each night , and I did not eat much food . |
| 5 | The next Saturday , armed with my pocket money , I waited for about an hour before the cheap-jack came to the knives , which after a lot of spiel were offered for sixpence — all I possessed . |
| 6 | I waited for quite a long time . |
| 7 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |