Example sentences of "[pers pn] for more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 2 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 3 | But Daphne 's dear familiarity , the pleasure of her company , the comfort of knowing pretty well what she would say in response to any remark , the whole warm , easy , ancient closeness that had subsisted between them for more than half a century , won over Cecilia 's temporary , though profound , embarrassment . |
| 4 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 5 | So , NME , you 've reached 40 and I 've been reading you for more than half that time . |
| 6 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 7 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 8 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 9 | ‘ Why were n't you able to keep him for more than a few months ? ’ |
| 10 | Nobody 's heard from him for more than a year . |
| 11 | Anyone viewing it for more than 1 round acquires D3 Insanity Points . |
| 12 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 13 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 14 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 15 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 16 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 17 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 18 | We have been planning it for more than a year . |
| 19 | Why had it never occurred to him to use it for more than carving ? |
| 20 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |
| 21 | Mum and Dad did n't find out about Flupper and us for more than a week . |