Example sentences of "[vb past] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having publicly backed his wife 's move , Mr Ozal now finds himself at odds with the party he founded and led for more than six years as prime minister . |
| 2 | Lee , 49 , who built up a paper recycling business which he sold for more than £8 million and has since developed several other companies , says he wants to make Manchester City the top club in the country . |
| 3 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 4 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 5 | These were apparently the two qualities which Mr Alfred Bestall attributed to the character of Rupert the Bear which he drew for more than 30 years . |
| 6 | True , giving him pride of place entails an insulting belittlement of her passionate romantic friendships with women ; not least the one she maintained for more than thirty years with Sue Gilbert , her dearest Other , and eventually — bitter blow — her sister-in-law . |
| 7 | I just believed for awhile that the dream had gotten away from me … |
| 8 | With World War II came one more hit , Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary ? ( 1944 ) , which Lynn produced and played for more than two years at the Duke of York 's Theatre and a further two years on tour . |
| 9 | The Waves beside them danced For oft when on my couch I lie |
| 10 | In the upshot , nothing happened for more than two years , a fate common , it would seem , to reports on aspects of further education , until July 1976 when , in response to a parliamentary question , the then Minister of State for Education and Science , Mr Gerald Fowler , announced that the DES would reject the Gann proposal for an autonomous validating body , in favour of handing over control of non-advanced vocational art and design courses to TEC and BEC . |
| 11 | Each employee paid £3 to participate and was set a personal target of raising at least £10 in sponsorship , but most exceeded the target and many also paid for more than one go . |
| 12 | ‘ The PDF ( Panamanian Defence Forces ) as an institution is rotten to the core , ’ argued Mr Alan Sabrosky , professor of international studies at Rhodes College in Memphis , who taught for more than five years at the Army War College . |
| 13 | I wo n't become your charity case because you discovered for once that I was n't lying . |
| 14 | I never knit for more than one hour at a time ; after this I go and make a cup of coffee , pop to the bathroom , feed the cat , water the plants , in fact any small job that takes about ten minutes . |
| 15 | The Irish Union legislation ( see pp.19–21 above ) had provided that the churches should be united and established for ever and the new Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland established apparently on that basis . |
| 16 | For example , the dies used to make Roman bronze medallions of the second century AD might last for ten years , and at the city of Dalisandos in Asia Minor a die survived for more than eighty years . |
| 17 | In 5 of 8 patients who survived for more than one year without evidence of local recurrence , endoscopic ultrasound showed a characteristic hyperechoic pattern interpreted as radiation fibrosis . |
| 18 | Another lever , which also worked for just that one hour , controlled the food supply . |
| 19 | Casual workers in these trades , who worked for more than one employer in a week , were to pay a whole week 's contribution for each employment . |
| 20 | Fourteen large unions each targeted for more than £100,000 failed to invest anything . |
| 21 | The success rate for obtaining an enhancement that persisted for more than 15min was less than 10% . |
| 22 | In all eight cases the diarrhoea continued for over 21 days , in five it persisted for more than three months . |
| 23 | Only two went for more than $1m : a giant mural , entitled ‘ America ’ , by the late Oaxacan , Rufino Tamayo , and his painting , ‘ Mujer con Mascara Roja ’ . |
| 24 | They scrambled onto the upturned hull and drifted for more than 20 minutes before coming to rest on a bank two miles away . |
| 25 | Moreover , if the answer is knowledge of the patient over time , what of the 2.3% of general practitioners and 31.3% of specialists who carried out LAWER on patients whom they knew for less than one month ? |
| 26 | It was against this background , namely that it seemed preposterous to suppose that a.b could ever be other than equal to b.a in any consistent algebraic setting , that Hamilton looked for more than 10 years for an extension of complex numbers suitable for application to the physics of 3-dimensional space . |
| 27 | The word is that Shearer ( below ) bought for more than 3 million in the deal that sent David Speedie to Southampton , picked up 800,000 ! |
| 28 | May we experience the joy of your presence in our midst , for you live and reign as Lord of all , one God to be praised and glorified for ever and ever . |
| 29 | Another cherry , the double pink Kiku-shidare Sakura , no longer weeps gracefully over the terrace pond as it did for more than 20 years . |
| 30 | ‘ That was the last thing I did for more than three years , ’ said Norman , who was a coppersmith at GEC in Manchester . |