Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to do more than they do , and he has to keep it up for much longer . |
| 2 | The bloke says bring it down for today . |
| 3 | After you 'd stuck it out for so long , why did you leave ? ’ |
| 4 | But she had re-entered the world of music , she comforted herself with this ; in the least expected way she was back in the life from which Mike and his family and marriage had threatened to cut her off for ever . |
| 5 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 6 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 7 | I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room . |
| 8 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |