Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not heard the ’ white heat of the technological revolution ’ speech made so well for many years . |
| 2 | His pupils were developing minds of their own , behaving out of character , no longer the dull but devoted group of enthusiasts he had taught so constructively for six months . |
| 3 | We lived together happily for many years and now it has come to killing each other 's babies . |
| 4 | Friday and I lived together happily for three years . |
| 5 | And while we 've struggled to keep ourselves from the fridge , we have wondered why we long so intensely for one food . |
| 6 | If it does not , and Darlington 's reputation is sullied once more for personal publicity then I for one know where to lay the blame . |
| 7 | Ballesteros appeared on the threshold of challenging once again for Major honours . |
| 8 | AT&T Co says it has negotiating with European carriers to join its WorldSource venture for ‘ better than a year , ’ but that with its customers clamouring for one-stop shopping , especially in Europe , AT&T could n't wait any longer for national carriers to join — ‘ We do n't plan to leave our customers at the European borders , ’ it said . |
| 9 | We reached his office where he said he had some paperwork to complete before we stopped fairly soon for ten minutes at Kenora . |
| 10 | Now , as we have already seen , such a monotraumatic theory holds perfectly well for archaic societies , like those in Australia , and explains a great deal about most other primitive cultures ( especially those with initiation ) , and even quite a lot about rather more advanced ones . |
| 11 | Without bending or leaning forward , skip rhythmically fast for 60 seconds . |
| 12 | Brick was the material developed and used almost universally for permanent buildings , timber for some other structures . |
| 13 | Yeah so erm yeah so if you get that sort of thing and then you can in some way either get people to discuss or get them to fill in a questionnaire about it or something of the sort I mean that 's er the format that y'know kind of er seems to work quite well for final year projects anyway er generally speaking with other stuff so er yeah that 's that 's do-able . |
| 14 | Cook very slowly for six hours . |
| 15 | Stir in the flour , add a tablespoon of the stock and cook very gently for 2–3 minutes . |
| 16 | Inset Left : Designed for deep sea work but often used on relatively shallow canals this diving gear allowed men to work safely underwater for long periods . |
| 17 | Walk aerobically today for 45 minutes . |
| 18 | The ‘ nationality ’ factor in early Elvis signified rather differently for British adolescents in the mid-1950s ; it was mediated through the image presented by the ‘ American South ’ within their national tradition , and , more widely , through the rather different gender , generational and class structures obtaining in Britain . |
| 19 | It was certainly done most effectively for one culture some years ago when Romeo and Juliet were transposed into the idiom of youth group clash in modern New York in West Side Story ( p. 95 ) . |
| 20 | It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination . |
| 21 | The bride herself remaining calm throughout , her mother , who had prayed so ardently for this day , finding herself utterly overcome by it ; having slept not a wink , of course , the night before and melting into tears — of anxiety , of joy , of overwrought nerves — the moment she got out of bed ; unable , no matter how hard she tried , to do her own soft , fair hair to her satisfaction and suffering a sudden and quite dreadful conviction that the powder-blue taffeta she had ordered from Miss Ernestine Baker was somehow not right . |
| 22 | His father , the last trained pastor in the country , had been in prison and suffered greatly there for 8 years . |
| 23 | Judges and legislators , relying on the national press and on ‘ experts ’ who speak more often for political constituencies than for science , assume that the political benefits of banning tests are cheaply won . |
| 24 | ‘ You came here tonight for several reasons , but none of them was to smooth our working relationship , so why lie ? |
| 25 | We 've done well enough for one night , and it 'll be standeasy soon . |
| 26 | The Group operated quite effectively for several years and was responsible for the production of approximately two-dozen tape-slides concerned with bibliographic instruction . |
| 27 | All in all , I think I have said quite enough for one minute . |
| 28 | They had met there before for face-to-face debriefings during Operation Steeplechase , and the routine was always the same . |
| 29 | Richards took the new ball — which did not shoot — and Ellison and Thomas played quite contentedly for two hours , putting on 72 for the last wicket , a new England record in the West Indies , taking the total to 315 . |
| 30 | One child psychiatrist advised that ‘ the standards of living have risen too rapidly for human nature to cope with ’ , and as the report cast its eye over ‘ moral decay , uncertainty and dissatisfaction ’ it was characteristic of the fifties mood that the disorientations of postwar ‘ affluence ’ should receive pride of place within these medical judgements . |