Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 2 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 3 | Although stool collection in their study was only carried out for 24–48 hours , it was done at home . |
| 4 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 5 | These figures only hold accurately for large files — 100 or more tracks in extent — although they will act as a guide even for very small files . |
| 6 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 7 | It presupposes that that is right that those boundaries have been rightly drawn essentially for all time . |
| 8 | So look out for equivalent terms such as Cava from Spain , Sekt from Germany and Methodo Classico from Italy . |
| 9 | So look out for Informed Choice at NCT branches and A Privilege To Be There at your local GP unit and hospital antenatal classes ( they are not available privately ) . |
| 10 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 11 | Because we believe in stable democratic government supported by a majority of the British people , we shall not only campaign wholeheartedly for fair votes in the coming weeks , we also make a pledge for the period after the election . |
| 12 | They have only played together for 45 minutes at international level , when Shearer scored on his debut against France nine months ago . |
| 13 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |
| 14 | Yeah , she 's only coming up for six weeks , mm , a monster . |
| 15 | Last years kit had a funny , heavy sort of feel to it … and was nt very comfortable to wear … especially running around for 90 mins . |
| 16 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 17 | we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone |
| 18 | I 've only popped by for five minutes . |
| 19 | Even when things had apparently gone well for fifteen years , the thinking population had been saying that the good times can never last : Surely enough , they came to an end in the mid 1970's . |
| 20 | Cos we only go in for one drink to cel , celebrate Penny 's birthday with her . |
| 21 | ‘ I think we had better go inside for some explanations , ’ he said with a sigh . |
| 22 | But the troops will only go in for humanitarian reasons including the protection of supplies . |
| 23 | In a larger study assessing endurance over nine days under different levels of sleep loss , the APRE reported that with no sleep at all soldiers could only operate effectively for four days , while with I.5 hours ' sleep a day 50 per cent of a platoon lasted nine days in the field , and nearly all of a platoon allowed 3 hours sleep completed the nine-day exercise . |
| 24 | He parked a Mercedes 600 on the driveway , although the battered VW was not discarded , merely put away for occasional use for fear of being accused of reverse affectation . |
| 25 | Well I , well I say , we 've looked at it slightly different because we 've only , we 've only worked together for five weeks . |
| 26 | A large sketchbook especially put aside for this project allowed me to work freely , and clear my head of the fact that I was working to a commission . |
| 27 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 28 | Beresford came under almost non-stop pressure for the final hour of the match but was only beaten once for all Huddersfield 's domination . |
| 29 | Cos he , he 's , he 's only stood about for first hour anyway . |
| 30 | ‘ But transfer fees are so blown up for British players that managers are now forced to look abroad . |