Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 2 | Last year 's budget debacle , in which Mr Brown and Mr Wilson slugged it out for 64 days , took all the state 's politicians to new lows in popularity . |
| 3 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 4 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 5 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |
| 6 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 7 | By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School . |
| 8 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 9 | Kept it up for three weeks . |
| 10 | ‘ We kept it up for ten days before Passchendaele , ’ Finlayson said . |
| 11 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |