Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 2 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 3 | But Toby was n't God , except to me for just that second , and he 'd been hurt . |
| 4 | I permit the incidents of the past to haunt me for just seven days of each year . |
| 5 | He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years . |
| 6 | Yes I think my socks garnished with holly and ivy will last me for quite some time ! ! |
| 7 | But it gave me satisfaction and comforted me for much that was otherwise missing from my life . |
| 8 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 9 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 10 | She studied me for about half a minute , then rearranged some of the knick-knacks on her stall . |
| 11 | And he stayed with me for about half an hour looking after me . |
| 12 | Do n't ask me for too many Freudian explanations . |
| 13 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , I guess you can afford me for that long . |
| 15 | He was called Chip and he stayed with me for around eight years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I said yeah then I get into trouble with them for not passing estimates to Terry and then there 's an argument . |
| 18 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 19 | I have n't spoken to them for nearly two weeks . ’ |
| 20 | Houghton has worked with them for nearly three years but at times still feels like a stranger . |
| 21 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 22 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 23 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 24 | He 'd heard nothing from them for over three months , and was forced to assume that they were either dead , or prisoners of the Nazis . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Mr Maxwell bought them for around 5 times that much . |
| 28 | Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years . |
| 29 | Erm , and I worked for them for about twelve or thirteen years , I suppose , trolling around sout south of England . |
| 30 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |