Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 2 | The debate will centre on alternative clauses : one outlawing all experiments on embryos from the moment of conception , the other ( the Warnock majority 's view ) allowing them for the first 14 days . |
| 3 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 4 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 6 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 7 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 8 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 9 | You look at the skill you did n't know you had , put a label on it and think : ‘ Yes I do do that ’ , whereas when you first walk in you think you 've done nothing for the last 18 years . |
| 10 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 11 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 12 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I want to thank you for the last five minutes . ’ |
| 14 | Max joined me for the last nine of my eighteen-months ' stint in Sun City . |
| 15 | The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) . |
| 16 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 17 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 18 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 19 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 20 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 21 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 22 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 23 | He continued to astound me for the next four years . |
| 24 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 25 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 26 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 27 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 28 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 29 | ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’ |
| 30 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |