Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I 've got a soft spot for the league , because I played in it for many years . ’ |
| 2 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 3 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 4 | The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time . |
| 5 | The fight lasted but a few minutes , when the soldiers retreated before us for twelve miles . |
| 6 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 7 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 8 | I lived with her for four years . |
| 9 | We lived with it for six months ! |
| 10 | Our younger son Barney and his wife lived with us for several years , and their son was born while they lived with us . |
| 11 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 12 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 13 | and worked for him for ten years on surveys and designs for many of his works . |
| 14 | She worked for her for eighteen years . |
| 15 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 16 | He worked with them for ten years , initially on the Sydney harbour and Newcastle upon Tyne bridges , and then from 1931 on the design and construction of welded steel bridges , of which his Billingham bridge was the first all-welded bridge in Britain . |
| 17 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 18 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 19 | A deep lump seemed to fill Laura'a throat as the little blonde girls clung to her for some minutes . |
| 20 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 21 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
| 22 | It hardened to a mask , and she lay under it for three days , wandering inside her body . |
| 23 | Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way . |
| 24 | Lifting his head , Leo stared at her for long moments , then , with another of his funny smiles , he murmured softly , ‘ Take care , ’ and he was gone . |
| 25 | His expression blank , he stared at her for long moments . |
| 26 | He stared at her for several seconds as if he could not remember who she was . |
| 27 | She looked at me for several seconds without speaking , and then said , ‘ Well , Molly , we all think you treat life as a joke ! ’ |
| 28 | She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married . |
| 29 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 30 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |