Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 3 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 4 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 5 | Well , Her Ladyship was rather special because she was with me for many years and supported me by producing calves for market . |
| 6 | ‘ He has coached me for many years and will certainly do so again , ’ admitted Gooch . |
| 7 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 8 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 9 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 10 | ’ I gather you want me for 2 deaths and a fire . ’ |
| 11 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 12 | I must ask those who are more familiar with the sciences to forgive me for any passages where they feel I might be guilty of over simplification . |
| 13 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 14 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 15 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 16 | But Mum knew them for crafty rogues and she had n't forgotten the coal . |
| 17 | And there were those men who encouraged us to reprimand them for sexist thoughts and deeds . |
| 18 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 19 | Jon stayed with them for two years until he had enough money to own a bus of his own . |
| 20 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |
| 21 | In the event , no effort was needed : the early years of the Great War caused great damage to the Edinburgh printing trade , with several firms going out of business , others laying off workers or releasing them for other jobs since trade was so poor . |
| 22 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 23 | The ‘ wild ’ characteristics have been bred out of them for many generations and few would survive long if released into the wild . |
| 24 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 25 | They were about to land at Bristol when he spotted car thieves and buzzed them for 10 miles until they ditched their motor . |
| 26 | ‘ And nobody 's slept in them for fifty years or more ! |
| 27 | In the dormitories I identified the beds in which I had slept , with the same trays beneath them for dirty clothes and the same chairs beside them . |
| 28 | The rumour is one of the caretakers was happily waving at them for 5 minutes before somebody told him they were n't real . |
| 29 | They can stop people , without prior basis of suspicion , ask them for personal details or question them about their knowledge of recent terrorist incidents . |
| 30 | If a limitation period has just been missed , one useful argument is the fact that it is possible to issue proceedings one day before limitation expires and then to hang on to them for four months before they are served . |