Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birmingham striker John Gayle got sent off for two bookings in as many minutes … |
| 2 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |
| 3 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 4 | The Sergeant and the Constable had continued on for two steps through the door towards their senior officer without realising that they had left Jimmy behind . |
| 5 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 6 | Charles Chaplin left for London , to present his film Limelight , and chose exile when he was told he would be examined on his fitness to re-enter the country he had lived in for forty years . |
| 7 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 8 | The traffic had jammed up for one thing and then we were treated to the sight of the guy in the rabbit costume ( it must have been male , women do n't run like that ) tearing down the street carrying a sledgehammer , hotly pursued by two policemen trying to keep their helmets on . |
| 9 | If the man had held out for five seconds he would have been dead . |
| 10 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |