Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | now if I tape for about an hour and a half or an hour and then rewind it , it 'll go |
| 2 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 3 | Like the desert after a flash flood , Freshers ' Fair is decorated by societies which bloom for just a day . |
| 4 | Now , if any of you get terribly tense at the back of shoulders which we all seem to do nowadays , if you come for just a back and shoulder massage , we actually work on the back of the neck and along the shoulders using massage movements which helps to relax you , which helps to actually break down the lactic acid that builds up in the muscles that causes you pain . |
| 5 | ‘ We drive for about an hour . |
| 6 | Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ? |
| 7 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 8 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 9 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |