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Example sentences of "[pron] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’
2	‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said .
3	The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on .
4	He heard nothing for four months .
5	I have eaten nothing for five days .
6	‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously .
7	And we 've done nothing for two years . ’
8	But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months .
9	Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet .
10	Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later .
11	But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction .
12	Nothing for ten months .
13	It is nothing for 50 trucks of Canadian pea-fed bacon to arrive in one day , or as many as 2,000 barrels of apples .
14	It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’
15	Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ?
16	He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out .
17	A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one .
18	They would be with me for four days in July .
19	‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted .
20	Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ .
21	But she sells them to me for fifty pence a packet still .
22	They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours .
23	‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage .
24	The swine owes me for two weeks .
25	Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway .
26	Pearse coached me for two years .
27	The family could quite well manage without me for two days .
28	The Italian , who was with me for two months , became really rather tiresome and disruptive , especially to the charming young German working hard for her exams .
29	Lucy knew she had to tell him something , so she said , ‘ She got mad with me when I admitted you 'd taken me for two bush walks .
30	I 'd had enough middle-aged men slobbering all over me for one day .