Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 2 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 3 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 4 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 5 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 6 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 7 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 8 | The way I was doing the deal , everyone was going to have to work together for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 10 | She lies there for a long time , not saying nothing . |
| 11 | In the gravityless environment of the hulk any unexploded bolts or similar projectiles could ricochet unpredictably for a long time within a confined space . |
| 12 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 13 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 14 | All the animals are in their cages , but they do n't seem to have very much space , and some of them have n't been fed properly for a long time . |
| 15 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 16 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 17 | B : ‘ That would be wonderful but I think we will be saving up for a long time . |
| 18 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 20 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 21 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 22 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 23 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 24 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 25 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 26 | I 'm going abroad for a short time … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Hangs about for a long time , that smell . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |
| 29 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 30 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |