Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] for the [adj] " 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 | You can watch the newsreader 's lips getting into gear , like Fatima Whitbread psyching herself up for the big throw . |
| 6 | Besides even if they did n't win it again for the next two million years we 'd never hear the end of it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 9 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 10 | When they come back into work , begin feeding the highfat/performance-type diet about six weeks in advance while you are training them up for the extra work ahead . |
| 11 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | he 's done nothing , put it right for the last year . |
| 17 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 18 | So remember you hold it down for the right length and quickly take your hand off , as soon as you 've done it . |
| 19 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 20 | Having all four styles comfortably within your repertoire thus equips you best for the total process of learning from experience . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 25 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
| 26 | The relative value of doing so measured against the cost of the associated hard and software , however , rules it out for the present time at least . |
| 27 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
| 28 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 29 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 30 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |