Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] for [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fitzwater reiterated President Bush 's denial earlier in the day that the United States , which has indicted General Noriega on drug trafficking charges and has been seeking to oust him for nearly two years , had initiated the revolt . |
| 2 | Which means you 've got to make it for about twelve or fourteen . |
| 3 | She put her arms around his neck , and Edouard managed to resist her for about thirty seconds . |
| 4 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 5 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |