Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
| 2 | You either let them in for two reasons . |
| 3 | To relax the feet totally , start by soaking them in for 20 minutes in some herbal bath salts . |
| 4 | We tested chickens by restraining them gently for 15 seconds and then timing their recovery from their trance . |
| 5 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 6 | Bill Dodd , club captain in the 1930s , was one of those players who always gave his all for ninety minutes . |
| 7 | Can I just for one minute , I only give example |
| 8 | You may have known someone else for twenty years and yet he will never be more than a casual acquaintance . |
| 9 | ‘ I never for one moment suspected that you were , ’ he murmured , his eyes suddenly running over her figure . |
| 10 | I never for one moment imagined that , no matter what you thought . ’ |
| 11 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 12 | ‘ Will you lend him to me just for one night ? ’ |
| 13 | Having at last managed to hold himself upright for five minutes without feeling the need to vomit , he started to order his heart . |
| 14 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 15 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 16 | Silvex Modes , do pop in , ladies , convenient hours to suit you and the kiddies , and we 'll lovingly screw you over for fifty pence an hour . |
| 17 | Er they take you up for twenty minutes intensive and then drop it |
| 18 | The man with the lisp said , ‘ It 'll put you out for ten minutes . |
| 19 | They take you there for twenty P if you reg he said I 'll bring you the papers . |
| 20 | ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’ |
| 21 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 22 | In fact I did one for , for erm one on for two years I think to ab about the same as that , just in pretty colours , but it went on and on . |
| 23 | Right , well let's generate the do , discussion and er get you all er involved in something else for three quarters of an hour . |
| 24 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 25 | She has put she 's put herself down for one day at the end of her accounts to learn about accountancy and as Ian pointed out , it 's it 's it 's not a lot . |
| 26 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It looks as though they have been trying to get rid of me here for three years . |
| 28 | ‘ You could have kept him on for two quid a week . |
| 29 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 30 | And I rung for an ambulance and it came and we took her up and sat with her , and they kept her in for four days . |