Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [art] [adj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 2 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 3 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 4 | Not only was it a loss to the series of Malcolm Hulke for a good many years , it was also a nail in the coffin of the show 's bid to be genuinely educative . |
| 5 | It 's been sitting on the forecourt of a garage just outside Ross on Wye for the past few weeks , and is gaining a considerable amount of interest from passers by … but as yet no one is very serious about buying it . |
| 6 | It 's been Huey , George , Ralph and Bert for the last few days , liquid laffs ahoy . |
| 7 | I took a siesta in the shade , and when evening rolled around was feeling fit enough to head back into Bandera for a few more beers at the Silver Dollar . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course he was away in England for a good many years , ’ Bull O'Malley offered by way of explanation . |
| 9 | Gloucester , which saw active service in the Gulf War , will monitor traffic to and from Serbia and Montenegro for the next few months . |
| 10 | He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract . |
| 11 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 12 | I have n't read anything official from Elland Road for the past few months , so I 'm presuming that this season coming we wo n't need premier cards to go to away games . |
| 13 | The deal , said by sources to be ‘ very valuable to Pyramid , ’ will also allow ICL to OEM the company 's high-end MIServer ES machines — this follows on from an informal Pyramid-ICL sales teaming that has been operating in the UK for the last few months . |
| 14 | I inquired after my brother , Max , who had finally agreed a few months ago to work for Dad 's firm , and I established that he was in Paris for a few more days . |
| 15 | A sense of adventure remained with Sara for the next few days , a sense of adventure tempered with trepidation , so that she had a sensation of flying high . |
| 16 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 17 | Methadone has been prescribed in Edinburgh for the past few years in an effort to control the spread of AIDS by offering people an alternative to injecting drugs . |
| 18 | Widespread ‘ light nights ’ were observed over Eurasia for the first few nights after the Tunguska event . |
| 19 | I 'll be in Roziac for a few more days . ’ |
| 20 | She hoped that Anna would keep off the subject of Luke for the next few hours . |
| 21 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |