Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 2 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 3 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 4 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 5 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 7 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 8 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 9 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 10 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 11 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 12 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 13 | He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York . |
| 14 | Um , now may be , according to Burstow , this is a sort of self-serving thing as well because it 's a way of saying , if you just say that that say your father sexually abused you for no good reason , that 's a very frightening thing to say . |
| 15 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 16 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 17 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 18 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 21 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 22 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 23 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 24 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 25 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 26 | It has n't prepared me for the outside world ; all it 's done is given me an awareness of myself . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've had everything and everyone your way from much too young , and it has n't prepared you for the big , wide world . |
| 28 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 29 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 30 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |