Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it was a farmer 's , and erm he did n't want to sell it , but I pursued him for nearly a year , and in the end he said that I could erm buy it and erm that 's when the project began . |
| 2 | I watch them for quite a while . |
| 3 | I stuck it for about a year and then moved on to another , slightly better hotel to do the same thing for marginally more money . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd never taken a woman on any of his expeditions before , so I nagged him for about a week and used all my female charm . |
| 5 | I mean when I moved I had stuff in here before the upstairs was used , I had it for about a year or so , before I opened it up . |
| 6 | You had them for quite a long while . |
| 7 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
| 8 | they sold it for quite a bit of money and |
| 9 | He was acquitted on the ground that ‘ he had her for almost a year with her goodwill . ’ |