Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 2 | She 'd saved up for many months . |
| 3 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 4 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 5 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 6 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 7 | He remained doubled over for several seconds before slowly straightening up and wiping the sweat from his forehead . |