Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 2 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 3 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 4 | ‘ I had not seen you for over six months , ma'am , it was merely surprise that you have lost a little colour … ’ |
| 5 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 6 | She had n't seen him for nearly three months and she was struck anew by his good looks . |
| 7 | I 'm not very good with people and , even though Eric is my brother , I have n't seen him for over two years , since he went crazy . |
| 8 | Have n't seen him for about two weeks . |
| 9 | She had n't seen him for almost five years and yet — less than twenty-four hours later — she 'd been not only happily returning his kisses , but also moaning with pleasure at the feel of his hands on her body . |
| 10 | I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know . |
| 11 | I ai n't seen her for about two months . |
| 12 | Margaret she 's coming to this do we 're going to , I have n't seen her for about forty years . |
| 13 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 14 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 15 | I have n't seen it for about two months . |
| 16 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 17 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 18 | Keep putting up , we 've had her for about two years have n't we ? |
| 19 | ‘ I 've used it for about three years . |
| 20 | So I do n't think I 've ever I 've had it for about eight months now and I do n't think I 've yet listened to all five in a row without changing it . |
| 21 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 22 | I do n't really know , I 've had it for about three week . |
| 23 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
| 24 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 25 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 26 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 27 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 28 | You 've all heard that and I 've heard it for about thirty years now . |
| 29 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 30 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |