Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I guess you can afford me for that long . |
| 2 | The overall search for new antimalarial agents involved the screening of some 16,000 compounds , most of them for both suppressive and prophylactic activity against several avian malarias , plus a thorough study of the toxicology and pharmacology of many of the preparations in lower animals . |
| 3 | I said yeah then I get into trouble with them for not passing estimates to Terry and then there 's an argument . |
| 4 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 5 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 6 | There was the taste of death in the kiss , but she accepted the price with the prize , and clung to the bitterness and the bliss alike , knowing them for ever inseparable now . |
| 7 | Within this work ethic , girls are encouraged to accept tasks in Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) institutional care programmes which prepare them for often distasteful and uncomfortable future roles as unskilled care staff ( Bates 1991 ) . |
| 8 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |
| 9 | They did n't , they di they were n't watching them for very long at all . |
| 10 | When the new system is introduced the caretaking staff will not be amongst those identified as operators and it is intended that these revised hours will assist caretaking staff by freeing them for more appropriate duties . |
| 11 | When pressure was put on them for more radical appointments , invitations were mostly too late to make any significant impact . |
| 12 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I have , but I 'd rather keep them for more important things . |
| 13 | It may be that you have been taking them for so long that you are caught up in a chemical spiral and can not now function without them . |
| 14 | She picked up the stock records , she had studied them for so long that her head ached . |
| 15 | Maureen was torn between her longing to hug Terry and gaze her fill on the young brother who had been lost to them for so long and pity for Frank who had no family to welcome him home . |
| 16 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 17 | Thing is , my old man 's had them for so long that he just , he he puts them in a in a cup of this like sterile solution every night . |
| 18 | Because the candles are displayed horizontally , light them for as brief a time as possible to avoid wax falling on the icing . |
| 19 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 20 | Although the Chinese transformed rhinoceros horn into forms of customary refinement , it seems unlikely that they went to the trouble of removing agglutinated masses of hair from rhinoceros snouts and lavishing such skill on them for purely aesthetic reasons . |
| 21 | He thought that the inhabitants of Chios , who according to tradition had introduced slavery into Greece , deserved the punishment of being themselves enslaved , which Mithridates had inflicted on them for quite different reasons ( fr. 38 Jacoby ) . |
| 22 | This is very embarrassing but last night I got into a bit of a state about not hearing from you for so long and I 'm afraid I sent you a completely mad letter which I … |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know how you 've managed to carry all of this around with you for so long and still be a relatively sane , level-headed person . ’ |
| 24 | So erm now I 've talked you for so long that I 've not got time to play this bit about the werewolves at Retford you see |
| 25 | It was argued that this was needed to allow the husband to do the field work as quickly as possible and so release him for more off-farm employment . |
| 26 | Yeah that was so , it was fucking random , I 've never talked to him in my entire life , I ended up , after we all left , talking to him for so long |
| 27 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 28 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 29 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 30 | want it for somewhere different from Marks and Spencers . |