Example sentences of "[pron] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour . |
| 2 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 3 | I was n't driving for an hour , you were n't following me for either an hour or forty miles . |
| 4 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 5 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 6 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 7 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 8 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 9 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 10 | Probably you could buy them some stores have them for maybe a week or so . |
| 11 | They used to be in the boxes up the yard , you see , you used to lay them and feed them for perhaps a week before you killed them . |
| 12 | ‘ At the first sign of the housing collapse , we brought in Coopers & Lybrand and worked with them for about a year . |
| 13 | People wanted to be the next model to sit and she 'd chat to them for about an hour and draw , and they 'd get a picture at the end of the session , just like you get in the street . ’ |
| 14 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 15 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 16 | You had them for quite a long while . |
| 17 | That said , your fish will appreciate a good feed of , day , Daphnia , and enjoy chasing them for quite a long time , so the quantity is a little less critical than with prepared food . |
| 18 | Their kills tend to be rich in protein , providing enough energy to sustain them for quite a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 20 | Fixed-term appointments are offered by the Board only where the job is expected to be of limited duration or there are exceptional management reasons for appointing someone for only a limited period to an ongoing job . |
| 21 | He built a prototype which for nearly a hundred years lay in the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC . |
| 22 | The images of Führer and Party , which for almost a decade after the ‘ seizure of power ’ had been largely separate and even diametrically opposed , were now starting to blur in public consciousness . |
| 23 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 24 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 25 | After all , as Lanier says ; ‘ This is something — and we have n't had a something for quite a while . ’ |
| 26 | Two of the women who were moved up with me had already been in prison , one for about a year , one for about eight months , so they knew what to expect . |
| 27 | And now he 's , they 've got one and I think it was about five hundred pounds , they bought this one s but they managed to sell the other one for about a hundred and fifty they say . |
| 28 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I 've been playing around with one for quite a while ; it 's a very nice piece of work . |
| 30 | to do an E C G on this man , well I had n't done one for quite a while and I 'd forgot really , not forgot what to do but I 'm not very familiar with the E C G machines because it 's a new electronic machine and its |