Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb past] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed in Brazil and worked hard for some years . |
| 2 | He was crazy about New York and went there for long weekends . |
| 3 | The family later moved to Blackheath and remained there for twenty-one years . |
| 4 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 5 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |