Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 2 | You 've all heard that and I 've heard it for about thirty years now . |
| 3 | And I 've seen them for years and years , twenty odd more than that years , beautiful , |
| 4 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
| 5 | I 've got a lot of my favourite garments from them , and I 've had them for years , ’ she says . |
| 6 | No I 'm actually quite surprised at myself I 've got two Clippers and both of them I found and I 've had them for ages . |
| 7 | Er I used to collect the Cat Stevens ' L Ps and I 've got one for sale . |
| 8 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 9 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 10 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
| 11 | And they have happened as I have wanted , and I have taken it for granted that they have because I know where I 'm going . |
| 12 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 13 | ‘ And you 've got something for me ? ’ |
| 14 | You know , when you get paid twenty pounds a night for driving the minibus , and you get paid nothing for running the P A , and it takes equally long if not , if not |
| 15 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 16 | ‘ Penny for them , ’ said Adam , when they were halfway through the meal and she had said nothing for a while . |
| 17 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 18 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 19 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 20 | Richard , our enemies were always the Tories and the bosses and we have fought them for everything we got . |
| 21 | And we know they 've learnt something , they 've understood it and they 've got it for life . |
| 22 | He was obviously Garry 's brother-in-law and he had mistaken her for Dana . |
| 23 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 24 | She was the daughter of an earl , well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil , and he had known her for as long as he could remember . |
| 25 | He did it because he was intoxicated by it : and he had found it for himself . |
| 26 | Prim and proper had always been her way , and he 'd appreciated her for it . |