Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 2 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 3 | Gimenez , who went the distance before losing to a 36-year-old Roberto Duran in 1987 is relishing his chance to make up for lost time . |
| 4 | CANADA 'S 13 Engines , with their considered blend of ominous guitar and vocals and a sometimes lumbering , limbering beat , should have little trouble making up for lost time with this overdue European release of their excellent debut LP . |
| 5 | CANADA 'S 13 Engines , with their considered blend of ominous guitar and vocals and a sometimes lumbering , limbering beat , should have little trouble making up for lost time with this overdue European release of their excellent debut LP . |
| 6 | I draw on feeling banked up for that time . |
| 7 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 8 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 9 | Have cockpit master switch and Pitot heat switch ON for prescribed time before checking that Pitot and static sources are in fact being heated . |