Example sentences of "[det] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what you want to do now , write down a list of what you want him to do and let Steve do that for tomorrow if you can and then let's see if we can make him stick to that list cos otherwise he 'll be here in |
| 2 | What , is that for tonight or |
| 3 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 4 | If she takes that for more than seven days it can poison her system . |
| 5 | My concern over this for almost as long as I can remember . |
| 6 | Bachet said that he had checked this for more than 300 numbers but did not know how to prove it . |
| 7 | I 've had four in the morning 's like this for more than fifteen years . |
| 8 | I could not tolerate this for long and at the end of February last year I retired from Hall Automation ; a sad day . |
| 9 | We could work on a paper like this for ever and never conclude anything . |
| 10 | But about 200 have spent some time in detention , some for more than four months . |
| 11 | Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law , some for more than eight years . |
| 12 | Yet after the end of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1871 ) , none of the great powers fought one another for more than forty years , although these years were full , if not of wars , at least of rumours of wars . |
| 13 | The majority of leg ulcers ( 291 : 62 per cent ) had been present for under two years , 48 per cent ( 141 ) of these for less than six months . |
| 14 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
| 15 | 6.6% ( 125 ) men and 14.0% ( 297 ) women had been incontinent of urine at some time — 2.8% ( 52 ) men and 7.5% ( 159 ) women in the previous two months and 61% ( 124 ) of these for more than four years . |
| 16 | Here the situations are the same for both but their response is different — one parent may be up and down shouting requests and injunctions to the children , whilst the other sits calmly drinking coffee . |