Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 2 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 3 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 4 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 5 | Doing sixty miles every hour , and I keep going for ten hours . |
| 6 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 7 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 8 | The director of studies , an obnoxious little shit who knew exactly where we both stood , received me in audience after I had waited for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 9 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 10 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 11 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 12 | If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son . |
| 13 | IF some of the jurors had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis , as I have done for 33 years , the verdict would have been emphatically in favour of Dr Cox . |