Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years . |
| 2 | But one artist is so entranced by their beauty that he 's painted nothing else for the last six years . |
| 3 | Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’ |
| 4 | If you have any views about ways in which we could help each other in such situations perhaps you 'd like to jot them down for the next newsletter . |
| 5 | Besides even if they did n't win it again for the next two million years we 'd never hear the end of it . |
| 6 | We played with Gary player for the first two rounds and he was as miserable as sin about our luck with the weather because we caught it again for the second round . |
| 7 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 8 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 9 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 10 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 11 | So far they had done precisely that , which made it all the more extraordinary that Julius should be here now , in her flat , actively seeking her out for the first time since he had overridden all his basic instincts and principles and strode out of her life ; away from the disastrous shambles of their marriage . |
| 12 | ‘ I have fished a poison-tongued mermaid from the sea , ’ he 'd grinned , straightening and gazing down at her as if inspecting her thoroughly for the first time . |
| 13 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 14 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 15 | My experience also spans the full spectrum of aircraft maintenance within the RAF from turning them around for the next flight at the sharp end , through the deeper repair at station level to the major repair at remote sites . |
| 16 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 17 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 18 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 19 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 20 | They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours . |
| 21 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 22 | Oh it 's it it 's on a it 's on erm it 's on a plate so you er I do n't mind I 'm , you know I do n't mind not getting it back for the next month . |
| 23 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 24 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 25 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 26 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 27 | The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time . |
| 28 | Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time . |
| 29 | Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either . |
| 30 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |