Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 2 | I was so disappointed to find out that , because I work for the company , I could not send off for three free tea towels and a £1 gift voucher being offered as part of a Hovis and JS combined promotion . |
| 3 | If names can not or will not pay up for 1990 and 1991 , the central fund could quickly be exhausted . |
| 4 | Describing the American feature film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to which he awarded a certificate , as a challenging religious film he said that acontroversial scene : ‘ It indicated that Christ had sex , but it did not go on for 14 minutes . ’ |
| 5 | After leaving the station , we 'd just walk around for ten or fifteen minutes , doubling back on our tracks , heading in through the lobby of a big hotel and straight out again through the rear entrance , until finally we 'd come to some itty-bitty hotel in a back street with a desk in the hallway , and we 'd do the elevator routine . |
| 6 | He 'll not come down for two week ! |
| 7 | No , they wo n't be moving away faster than light is travelling because the theory of relativity says that nothing can move faster than light , but there are certainly things which may be happening now which we shall not learn about for thousands of millions of years because they are so far away . |
| 8 | ‘ Leaseholders wo n't hang around for 16 years in a pub , because leases can be sold on . |
| 9 | The snow did n't slack off for 36 hours . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's no reason why I ca n't go on for 200 goals and I do n't agree with the argument that you should retire at the top . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like a time bomb you carry round with you , ’ Arty said , ‘ and the alarm might n't go off for twenty-five years . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ She went under a desk and did n't come out for four days . |
| 13 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 14 | She did n't come back for two days . |
| 15 | Angry neighbours could n't get out for two days . |
| 16 | I could n't lie down for five weeks ! |
| 17 | He could n't lie down for seven weeks because of problems with his head , neck and pelvis , ’ recalled Knight . |
| 18 | I mean , i if he , if you said something like that to him and he went away and he did n't turn up for two or three days , you would never live with yourself . |
| 19 | Should have been seven — but I did n't turn up for three . ’ |
| 20 | There are clearly — even just for music — a variety of options , and the school must eventually come down for one pattern of timing rather than another . |