Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |
| 2 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 3 | When I say existed for ten years , er I I did make a slight mistake in that for ten years erm the village . |
| 4 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 5 | Doing sixty miles every hour , and I keep going for ten hours . |
| 6 | Well , I keep waiting for one of these free offers to come in the newspaper . |
| 7 | I did go for one short walk in the cool overcast , just along the beach to the south end of the island and back , then I stayed in and watched some more television when the rain came on , carried on a low wind , glummuttering against the window . |
| 8 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 9 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 10 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 11 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 12 | It was a joke — I had to cook for 70 people and there were 12 rooms and a pub as well that could seat 100–200 in summer . |
| 13 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 14 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 15 | I had hoped for thirty on the paved road to bump up the average before the open desert at Adrar . |
| 16 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 17 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |
| 18 | The director of studies , an obnoxious little shit who knew exactly where we both stood , received me in audience after I had waited for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 19 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 20 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 21 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 22 | I 've smoked for sixty years and I can not change now . ’ |
| 23 | This is the first proper daylight I 've seen for two months . |
| 24 | I 've worked for eight years , I 've got references . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 26 | Erm , I 've worked for ten and a half years within this county of Clwyd as a social worker , regarded as an extensional and every year my employers er , who are based in London would like the county to know what were the remec recommended mileage rates for the reimbursel to a business car mileage ? |
| 27 | I 've got a pewter-coloured Strat Plus which I 've had for two years now . |
| 28 | And the pain I 've had for three years was far worse . |
| 29 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |
| 30 | " I 've come for one of your children . |