Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 2 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 3 | I asked for seventy-five . |
| 4 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 5 | I asked for 15 rehearsals for the Benvenuto Cellini in Geneva ( in February ) and both the orchestra manager and the intendant at the house thought I was crazy . |
| 6 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 7 | Before being offered my current job in a family centre , I applied for dozens , and I know at least two rejections were based on the fact that I am a man . |
| 8 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 9 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 10 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 11 | Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat |
| 12 | yeah , I mean for twenty thousand what could you have ? , you could have a Calibre could n't ya for twenty thousand |
| 13 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 14 | I intend for fifteen twenty minutes or so , not to get into the issues of policy because you 've all got your own particular interests in that particular field and maybe that will come out during the course of the question and answer session . |
| 15 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 16 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 17 | Well I wan I tried for two days to talk about Lady Thatcher . |
| 18 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 19 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 20 | When I was in Hawaii I practised for eight or nine hours a day ; now I practise a lot less , but I do so a lot more efficiently and effectively . |
| 21 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 22 | I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel . |
| 23 | ‘ I studied for five years at the Physical Education Academy , so I could go back to Poland and be a school teacher . |
| 24 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 25 | What shall I do for eight ? |
| 26 | What shall I do for seven ? |
| 27 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 28 | I wait for fifteen minutes . |
| 29 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 30 | HIGH jinks in the Manpower Services Commission , I reckoned for one gleeful moment . |