Example sentences of "[pers pn] for a [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My course will eventually qualify me for a good career but meanwhile I 'm struggling on an allowance . |
| 2 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 3 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 4 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 5 | Can you excuse me for a few minutes while I have a word with the others and then I 'll be straight back to you ? ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 7 | The Brigadier glared at me for a few seconds and replied rather quietly . |
| 8 | After the Turkish conquest of most of Hungary in the 1520s and 1530s the Hungarian nobles who had then fled westwards often still maintained claims to their former lands and even asserted their right to live tax-free on them for a limited period and to levy feudal dues in them . |
| 9 | At this point some other people arrived to catch the train and his attention turned to them for a split second and within that time the sound of the scrunching footsteps disappeared into the night . |
| 10 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 11 | I 've been after them for a long time and I 'll get them for this . ’ |
| 12 | When the child has gained a number of these it can exchange them for a rewarding object or activity . |
| 13 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 14 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |
| 15 | Do a few products and then , leave them for a few days and go back and integrate them . |
| 16 | you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in |
| 17 | The tour in Japan was over and David left — he sailed for Vladivostok — and finally , just to get rid of me as usual ( if you keep making enough noise they 'll get rid of you for a little peace and quiet ) they gave me a visa . |
| 18 | ‘ It is something that tends to live with you for a long time but at least we now have the chance to put the record straight and show that we , too , can play a bit . |
| 19 | ‘ Did you think that I would make love to you for a few days and then let you walk out of my life without trying to get in touch ? ’ |
| 20 | Could I stay with you for a few days and learn how you manage without magic ? " |
| 21 | You , you , you have two do n't you for a sub base or just , you just have one do ya ? |
| 22 | He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun . |
| 23 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |
| 24 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
| 25 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 26 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 27 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 28 | The woman stared at him for a few moments as she mulled over his offer . |
| 29 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 30 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |