Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 2 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 3 | Even the Tech , which has trumpeted the fact that it has pushed hard for a greater training element , has only been enabl able to include such elements as health and safety , job search , an enhancement of skills relevant to the job that is being done . |
| 4 | He seemed to consider that for a few seconds and then replied , ‘ Maria Luisa needed me around . ’ |
| 5 | These records can frighten parents because some behaviours are seen to get worse for a short period . |
| 6 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else , why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence ? |
| 8 | Would you like to borrow Nutty for a few weeks ? |
| 9 | I would like to see that for a disabled applicant , but nevertheless , for a registered disabled applicant , and we can make special provision for the training of er , under represented groups . |
| 10 | ‘ It shows that the public is beginning to realise that for a few pounds spent on car security they can protect their second most expensive purchase , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ It shows that the public is beginning to realise that for a few pounds spent on car security they can protect their second most expensive purchase . ’ |
| 12 | Miranda began to feel curious for a closer look . |
| 13 | Certainly , a successful coup would have offered potential for a dangerous new version of a ‘ stab-in-the-back ’ legend . |
| 14 | No-one , for example , could be found to bid enough for a rare walnut cabinet , its nine drawers covered with sculpted bone and ivory plates and plaques decorated with polychrome enamel plates , bought in at FFr 160,000 . |
| 15 | She had gone to work first for a radical magazine , perched in a cramped office behind Kings Cross . |
| 16 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 17 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 18 | Of , one of the words that she was talking about , people have started using wicked for a normal phrase . |
| 19 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 20 | Er there 's a sense also in which memories may not be an individual phenomenon but may be a collective phenomena and if you listen to families reminiscing about things or people who 've know each-other for a long time reminiscing about things , different people supply different details , they contradict one-another , they erm fill things in , they say no it ca n't have been then because um because that was the Christmas when Uncle Sydney had his kidney stones and um y'know stuff like that . |
| 21 | He could well have returned late at night and she not heard him , though she had stayed awake for a long time , listening for the sound of the horses , the carriage wheels on the drive . |
| 22 | And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’ |
| 23 | Yes , I 've known that for a long time . |
| 24 | " I know , " Patrick said defiantly , realizing what she was trying to do , " I 've known that for a long time . " |
| 25 | Vologsky 's need to feel that he was not alone in the world had lain dormant for a long time . |
| 26 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 27 | It appeared that signer 2 very clearly used speech throughout , one presumes to make lip-reading easier for a deaf audience . |
| 28 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |
| 29 | " I have advocated this for a long time " , he declared , " and now I see that some of the shipowners are inclined to agree to it . |
| 30 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |