Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] for a [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 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 14 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 15 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 18 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |
| 22 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 23 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |