Example sentences of "[pers pn] for hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one would start looking for me for hours ; not until after dark . |
| 2 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 3 | Very gentle — he never got into fights , with me or anyone else ; and he 'd play with me for hours . |
| 4 | Otto must have talked to me for hours that day . |
| 5 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
| 6 | Nature displayed in this form beats abstract art hands down ; the pictures are so breathtakingly beautiful that one can wallow in them for hours and quite forget geology . |
| 7 | I used to play with them for hours on end and they tore a big hole in the back of my coat during one rough and tumble . |
| 8 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 9 | I 'd stare at them for hours . |
| 10 | Back he scampered , to thunderous acclaim and a blizzard of silver , wowing them for hours . |
| 11 | Without a guide you can follow them for hours without finding your way out of the bush . ’ |
| 12 | If I could , I 'd have watched them for hours . |
| 13 | erm Somebody on this morning 's course said that they quite like answering machines , they use them like note pads , and they ring up people they know have got an answering machine so they can just leave a message , they say it 's quicker than writing a letter , and it 's easier than talking to them for hours , you can just ring them up and leave a message on their answering machine like a sort of note pad , which I had n't thought of , but I suppose it 's rather good , is n't it ! |
| 14 | MR GEOFF WELCH PHONED ( 4.00PM ) HE IS COMING UP TO EDINBURGH NEXT WEEK AND WAS WONDERING IF HE COULD ARRANGE TO SEE YOU FOR HOUR . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten . |
| 16 | British custom string manufacturers Newtone will talk to you for hours explaining their new range of Burns strings . |
| 17 | ‘ We could n't think where you were , ’ said my mother , ‘ we hunted for you for hours . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been beating the bushes looking for you for hours ! ’ |
| 19 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 20 | I want to be with you , really with you , inside you for hours on end , I 'm achin' for it . ’ |
| 21 | erm I could lecture you for hours at a time on the subject . |
| 22 | I used to sit and watch him for hours , painstakingly working on a painting , and , following his example , I would push myself harder and harder to make my own drawings better . |
| 23 | Maura and Margaret sat by him for hours . |
| 24 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 25 | His ultimate fantasy was a movie star fellating him for hours and hours . |
| 26 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 27 | Cadogan says ferried to question this man till he 's dry , question him to death if necessary , but I 've already spoken to him for hours . |
| 28 | He would chatter away egotistically to her for hours . |
| 29 | I have sat with her for hours spooning broth into her and a tedious business it is to make sure any of it goes down . |
| 30 | Edward had watched over her for hours , even refusing to go down to the lock with his friends for days , though he loved to play there . |