Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 2 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 3 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 4 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 5 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 7 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 8 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 9 | Dad 's a , dad 's just nominated you for the big in the campus . |
| 10 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 11 | He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York . |
| 12 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 13 | Um , now may be , according to Burstow , this is a sort of self-serving thing as well because it 's a way of saying , if you just say that that say your father sexually abused you for no good reason , that 's a very frightening thing to say . |
| 14 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 15 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |
| 16 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 18 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 19 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 20 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |