Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student theatre has had to close for four months because of the risk of fire . |
| 2 | The theatre like most other organisations have actually looked for savings and this this trust has had to look for seventy thousand pounds savings . |
| 3 | His job is so delicate that to ring birds like this Bill has had to train for two years under the watchful eye of a certified ringer . |
| 4 | Nayab 's restaurant has provided catering for two functions attended by Prince Charles , who ordered 33 separate vegetarian dishes . |
| 5 | But it may not be appreciated that Miller 's work provided the foundation for later encyclopaedic horticultural works ( see William Stearn , Chapter 20 ) and the ‘ bright beam of gardening ’ , of which John Rogers wrote in 1839 , has continued to shine for two centuries . |
| 6 | He is said to have served for twenty-five years as rector of the cathedral fabric fund and is undoubtedly found in association with the cathedral 's masons and workshops . |
| 7 | They inhabit a world emerging from a period when human beings are said to have lived for hundreds of years . |
| 8 | Yes , yes , he 's organised it Chris has had to go to work for two days this week . |
| 9 | They were alleged to have ordered for 28 PC-5s overseas , but this probably never materialised . |
| 10 | They dropped down into the city of Wells from the lower slopes of the Mendip Hills , and can not have failed to pause for one of the finest views of the cathedral . |
| 11 | Magistrates agreed to delay sentencing for three months so he could take the holiday . |
| 12 | I managed to stop drinking for four months : I kept a bottle in the house but I never touched it . |
| 13 | But of course , I mean , we know little about it they do say if you have had a heart attack it 's no good you know , as soon you get up and you start eating going for five mile walks |
| 14 | I did stop smoking for three months and then with everyone else around us , I mean I was putting on weight and then I went back to smoking . |
| 15 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |
| 16 | She had delayed coming for twenty-four hours because she had a hair appointment . |
| 17 | At the Somme memorial to those with no known grave , his granddaughter wants a posthumous pardon , to finally purge the shame her family had sought to hide for three generations . |
| 18 | We 've got to talk for twenty tapes |
| 19 | And I 've got to wait for three weeks before I know ! |
| 20 | I think of the vast amount of work I 've got planned for six weeks , makes me wish it was about ten . |
| 21 | and I said alright so what you 've got to struggle for five or six years , everybody else , join the club |
| 22 | It would be no good putting together menu and arranging to do two thousand covers if you 've got spacing for twenty persons , would it ? |
| 23 | But the minute , the minute the College simply agreed , at least they 've agreed to close for ten million pounds at least if they do n't agree , what would happen then ? |
| 24 | He was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead for fifteen years ; in his own word he was " excommunicated " . |
| 25 | Well we 've wanted to move for twenty five years possibly . |
| 26 | But if it had meant working for two months she would have said immediately , as she did now , ‘ I 'll have it . ’ |
| 27 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 28 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 30 | Over the past year , welfare workers have had to care for fourteen hundred abandoned dogs and seven hundred cats . |