Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 2 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 3 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 4 | I long for Anglican churches to be more confident in their expression of the Good News . |
| 5 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 6 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 7 | I believe that I speak for many others , both in my party and outside it , who want to see a successful conclusion at Maastricht and who want political and economic union in Europe to go forward . |
| 8 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 9 | I 'm sure I speak for most Merseysiders in saying enough is enough . |
| 10 | I await for better selections and performance in the autumn from the so-called ‘ heirs apparent ’ to the Webb Ellis Trophy . |
| 11 | I wait for fifteen minutes . |
| 12 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |
| 13 | I look for certain features , like the floor . |
| 14 | I look for better ways of doing things |
| 15 | I think I read for two hours , but it seemed like ten minutes . |
| 16 | I have one or two such places up my sleeve which I save for difficult days but I do n't spoil it by going to them too often . |
| 17 | I spy for both sides . |
| 18 | I have now returned to live in London where I teach for two days a week at the Royal Academy Schools ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I ask for two reasons . |
| 20 | Therefore , I ask for brief questions , please , to the Chancellor of the Exchequer so that as many hon. Members as possible may be called . |
| 21 | I go for those things you forget about until you see them again . |
| 22 | I think I go for clichéd solos in a way . |
| 23 | But I have different slides I use for different things . |
| 24 | I think perhaps it is the cocaine I keep for medical purposes , pure , straight cocaine . |
| 25 | But as soon as I had the door shut I began to ransack the flat for the sheet music I keep for special occasions such as Christmas , bar mitzvahs , weddings and so on . |
| 26 | If I could speak French like François Mitterrand I probably would n't have the empathy I do for young horses . |
| 27 | It is a right I reserve for all adults and one of the nicest things about being my age is that I can do whatever I like . |
| 28 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
| 29 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 30 | Erm I think for some reasons Trudy we so a rogue in there , bridge assessment records , I applies to P Way . |