Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 2 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 5 | ‘ It is important for the children to be medically fit to go , so I ask for a full report from their doctors , ’ says Dr Holmes-Smith . |
| 6 | The bar had a headbanging range of Fuller 's beers but I decided I 'd better be in training for the Exhilarator so I opted for an alcohol-free lager , turned my back to the bar and its temptations and scouted for Werewolf . |
| 7 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 8 | ’ Rainforest ’ turns out to be the squawking tropical bird noise already playing in the Centre , so I settle for the crashing waves and seagull cries of ’ Ocean ’ . |
| 9 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ Better than you did for the entire evening . ’ |
| 11 | No , no ; that sounded too much like the Bible , so she plumped for the simple way and finished , ‘ He has given her a baby . ’ |
| 12 | We decided we were n't going to get on without flirting with a lot of trouble , so we opted for the trusty 1-iron again . |
| 13 | But you need real people for a proper gloat so we headed for the cardboard suburb in the Strand . |
| 14 | As a proportion of national consumer expenditure , advertising more than doubled between 1945 and 1990 , so they competed for a growing purse . |
| 15 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 16 | The London Industrial Strategy ( Greater London Council , 1985 ) highlights some of these problems , and although it argues for a positive role for local authorities , in the end it concludes that national help and assistance will be necessary in order to have any major impact . |
| 17 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 18 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 19 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 20 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 21 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 22 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 23 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 24 | Ludovico called exuberantly for champagne but it was unobtainable , so he settled for a sweet fizzy wine instead . |
| 25 | It 's not as if I worked for a large network news show . |
| 26 | Later I tell C that if I worked for the Daily Star , I 'd have my story already . |
| 27 | If you studied for a two-year teachers ' certificate at the University before the early 1980s , you qualify to join the Duannians . |
| 28 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 29 | Professor Bernard Isaacs of Birmingham University has said : ‘ If you design for the young , you exclude the old . |
| 30 | If you asked for a special audit they would probably welcome it , as an indication that the bank was going to great lengths not to put them out of business . " |