Example sentences of "[pron] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I want John to love me for ever and ever . |
| 2 | " Will you love me for ever and ever , So that nothing will sever this love ? " |
| 3 | ‘ But you want me for more than one night . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll keep them for ever and ever , even when I 've grown too big for them . |
| 5 | It would n't fool them for long but it would do for a moment . |
| 6 | We will require employers to give everyone who works for them for more than eight hours a week a clear written statement of their terms and conditions of employment . |
| 7 | Parent : ‘ He does n't play with them for more than 5 minutes before wanting to throw them at the wall . ’ |
| 8 | Many of the people who were targeted to move from hospital under the scheme have been in hospital for many years , many of them for more than 40 or 50 years . |
| 9 | We had n't seen them for more than eight years , as they had lived in Florida before moving to Corfu . |
| 10 | His return represented a landmark in the rehabilitation of the Uniate Church , which for more than 40 years had been the world 's largest banned religious organization . |
| 11 | Father-of-three Mr Simon says he regretted fitting moto-cross motorcycle tyres , which for all but about 100metres of the rally were the wrong choice . |
| 12 | Against this notion , the reformers contended that , in Bentham 's words , ‘ each should count for one and nobody for more than one ’ . |
| 13 | It is impossible for us to appreciate the impact of this dramatic change amongst people who for more than 40 years had been rigorously controlled by a centrally planned economy , implemented by a national and local bureaucracy . |
| 14 | The memory stays with you for ever and you 'll always be more careful . |
| 15 | It lives with you for ever and a day . |
| 16 | But you got an appointment fo you could of had one for tomorrow but I thought Wednesday is a better day I thought . |
| 17 | We were never without one for even when your friends were unavailable , it was still possible to have splendid games just bouncing the ball against a wall and catching it , something that gave hours of pleasure and , what was more important , trained the eye . |
| 18 | Not that one for now because that 's doing something different . |
| 19 | American , Australia , Canada , New Zealand , France , Denmark , Holland , Norway and Greece all have them — Sweden has had one for more than 200 years . |
| 20 | It 's basically , I mean , you know , who 's really gon na want one for less than ten years . |
| 21 | I know , but I want to see how much there worth , so there about , see if we can get one for less than twenty pounds ca n't you . |
| 22 | I want to live with him for ever and ever ! ’ |
| 23 | If he 'd been faithful , I 'd have stayed with him for ever and you and your paramour could have continued your idyllic existence . " |
| 24 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 25 | As for Henry , nothing short of Middle Eastern arms shipment would satisfy him and unlikely that Acid Rain Testing Kit will divert him for more than five seconds . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh had n't seen him for more than ten years when he had been a newly appointed inspector in the Metropolitan CID and was surprised to see how little he had changed ; time , marriage , removal from London , promotion , had left no apparent mark on him . |
| 27 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 28 | we 're banning him for further and I 'm gon na |
| 29 | So I stayed with him for quite while until I was able to tackle my own half a stint , not a full stint , which was nine yards . |
| 30 | Diana vented all the grievances which had been welling up inside her for more than ten years . |