Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 2 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 3 | Yeah that 's what I 've come in for twenty for . |
| 4 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 5 | CHARLIE BISSET , a member of the elite club of players who have turned out for three Scottish districts , has been elected as an Edinburgh representative on the Scottish Rugby Union committee . |
| 6 | Obviously , there are others on the fringes of this group who have dropped out for 1-2 years ( an extra 13 firms ) but this leaves a large number who are at most transient players . |
| 7 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 8 | Yeah , we 've been out we 've gone out for six weeks tomorrow . |
| 9 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 10 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 11 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 12 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 14 | Charles Chaplin left for London , to present his film Limelight , and chose exile when he was told he would be examined on his fitness to re-enter the country he had lived in for forty years . |
| 15 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |