Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must sit down for two minutes , Jim . |
| 2 | I might get up for one thing and put back another by mistake . |
| 3 | I 'll sit down for three minutes ! |
| 4 | In the end my parents agreed that I could go up for one year instead of being at the Royal College of Music . |
| 5 | She would sit down for one minute and then she would go and warm herself beside Tom . |
| 6 | I like to put the television on , as there 's usually a very good programme at twelve ten like there is supposedly Rainbow today , but there is n't , which I find very useful for my toddler while I 'm getting lunch for the baby , myself and her , so she can sit down for twenty minutes , there can be a few minutes peace , and there 's just you know it 's just not on . |
| 7 | you can set out for two hundred . |
| 8 | I think we should go in for 10,000 of these ones … " |
| 9 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 10 | And they er locked us out until we 'd go back for ten and thruppence a day , so of course we did n't go back . |
| 11 | It was not worth the sulk and you 're ashamed of me are n't you that he could keep up for three days when required . |