Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [vb pp] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 2 | I 've looked everywhere for a weapon , but there 's nothing of any use , even if I had the strength and skill . |
| 3 | I 've settled now for a sort of uniform during the day of a skirt , silk shirt and a jacket , with a three-quarter length cashmere coat over it in winter . |
| 4 | He was absolutely right to welcome the substantial increases that I have announced today for a range of programmes . |
| 5 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 6 | I have thought so for a very long time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You have to remember that Tim , Sue and I have worked together for a very long time now . |
| 8 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 9 | Hot off his guest appearances with the Levellers on the New Model Army tour , his solo set could almost share a bed with blues singers were it not for the updated landscapes : from illegal bare-knuckled boxers and the closing of the mines to adventures in Hackney dole office , all delivered with a street-urchin charm that visibly shocks the one or two tweeders who 've mistaken tonight for a ‘ folk ’ evening . |
| 10 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 12 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |
| 13 | The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists . |
| 14 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 15 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've worked together for a very long time . ’ |
| 17 | weekend that we are arranging this summer as we have done annually for a number of years . |
| 18 | We have pushed successfully for an EC ban on large-scale drift nets that threatened dolphins , and we support the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on their use . |
| 19 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 20 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 21 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 22 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 23 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 24 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |