Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mate goes five times a week and she ai n't had nothing for over twelve months . |
| 2 | Natasha sighed audibly and said nothing for so long Charlotte thought she had walked away from the telephone . |
| 3 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 4 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 5 | But Toby was n't God , except to me for just that second , and he 'd been hurt . |
| 6 | I permit the incidents of the past to haunt me for just seven days of each year . |
| 7 | He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years . |
| 8 | Yes I think my socks garnished with holly and ivy will last me for quite some time ! ! |
| 9 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 10 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 11 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 12 | He was called Chip and he stayed with me for around eight years . |
| 13 | It implied nothing about how such rocks were formed . |
| 14 | Likewise , tables of the age distribution in certain selected parishes in early-modern England tell us nothing about how structured dependence has altered qualitatively over time . |
| 15 | I said yeah then I get into trouble with them for not passing estimates to Terry and then there 's an argument . |
| 16 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 17 | I have n't spoken to them for nearly two weeks . ’ |
| 18 | Houghton has worked with them for nearly three years but at times still feels like a stranger . |
| 19 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 20 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 21 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 22 | He 'd heard nothing from them for over three months , and was forced to assume that they were either dead , or prisoners of the Nazis . |
| 23 | Mr Maxwell bought them for around 5 times that much . |
| 24 | Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years . |
| 25 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |
| 26 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 27 | He says he worked with them for about seven months . |
| 28 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 29 | Shape the mixture into smallish hamburgers in the palm of your hands and , turning them once , grill them for about 5-7 minutes depending on how rare you like the meat . |
| 30 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |