Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | The memory stays with you for ever and you 'll always be more careful . |
| 11 | It lives with you for ever and a day . |
| 12 | I want to live with him for ever and ever ! ’ |
| 13 | If he 'd been faithful , I 'd have stayed with him for ever and you and your paramour could have continued your idyllic existence . " |
| 14 | I can excuse him for yesterday as he had to leave at the start of the second half to appear on Question of Sport : - ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I have worked for him for more than three years and have come to admire him both as a doctor and a man . |
| 18 | we 're banning him for further and I 'm gon na |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Diana vented all the grievances which had been welling up inside her for more than ten years . |
| 21 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 22 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 23 | Having known her for less than two months , he was not yet confident of any strong hold on her affections , despite the fact that she seemed quite willing to accept his embraces and kisses . |
| 24 | Nails concentrated hard and found the stride about once in every two circles , but could not keep with it for more than two or three strides before he lost his balance and came down while Midnight was coming up . |
| 25 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 26 | If you imagine it for more than two or three minutes , you start crying . ’ |
| 27 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 28 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 29 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 30 | Of those firms which did possess such a strategy , a quarter had not reviewed it for more than two years , making it only mildly effective . |