Example sentences of "had [verb] for [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 2 | We had flown for thirty hours in the fortnight . |
| 3 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 4 | He looked immaculate and well rested , as though he had slept for twelve hours instead of a scanty , meagre five . |
| 5 | We had driven for five hours in open lorries through a rainstorm , climbing into the foothills of the Alps and then across a wilderness of a training area , with sharp mountains and expanses of harsh , windblown moorland . |
| 6 | We had planned a stop in Grenoble and had filed for seven hours , with a one-hour stop en route . |
| 7 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 8 | His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there . |
| 9 | ‘ However , in my opinion the body had lain for some hours after death in a supine position . ’ |
| 10 | Picture the poor miner cursing the mis-fired hole upon which he had laboured for several hours . |