Example sentences of "for ages " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 2 | ‘ Jay , ’ she said , with what sounded like pleasure , ‘ I have n't seen you for ages . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 4 | A man said he had breathed for ages and felt nothing . |
| 5 | I 'd been after a pair for ages . |
| 6 | For ages Bernie maintained he already knew her from somewhere but could n't quite place it . |
| 7 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 8 | Then Paul said , I do n't know why you 're sticking up for him , he 's been trying to get you slung out on your ear for ages . |
| 9 | For ages afterwards all these letters kept arriving at Denmark Street from the Scientologists . |
| 10 | All that 's fine with me ; I 've known the bloody thing was wrong for ages anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 12 | Pete finds this hilarious ; he has been dying to get his own back for various things for ages and this comes close to the perfect opportunity . |
| 13 | Add options and you are left with a total of £13,190 , which is the most ludicrously optimistic price I 've heard for ages . |
| 14 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 15 | He 's got a wife in his home , but he ai n't seen her for ages . |
| 16 | We hang onto each other for ages , not saying nothing . |
| 17 | I end up staying there for ages , thinking about Marie and that . |
| 18 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 19 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 20 | I get real hungry looking at the photos — I ai n't ate for ages . |
| 21 | It 's been dark for ages . |
| 22 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 23 | The street goes on for ages , but it 's pretty interesting . |
| 24 | I stand looking in that window for ages . |
| 25 | Standing around in this weather for ages . ’ |
| 26 | They 'd rather live for ages with sagging shelves and peeling paint . |
| 27 | The efforts — and prison sentences — of the unofficial peace movement had redeemed the similarly contaminated word peace , but ‘ in my country , for ages now , socialism has been no more than an incantation that should be avoided if one does not wish to appear suspect . ’ |
| 28 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 29 | Should you ever possess a whole ham on the bone , you must know how to carve it properly , otherwise you will waste a great deal of meat and subsequently be eating ham soup for ages . |
| 30 | The film we 're going to see is Flatliners , and Denice tells us she 's been dying to see it for ages . |