Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 2 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 3 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 4 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |
| 5 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 6 | ‘ Before we appoint a new assistant , we interview them for quite some time . |
| 7 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |
| 8 | Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years . |
| 9 | The Treaty of Utrecht was not the triumphant dictation of terms to a prostrate enemy that some Whigs would have liked , but it provided something for almost all overseas commercial interests in Britain and in her possessions overseas . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's why I used her for so many of the taped examples for my lectures , Folly . |
| 11 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 12 | He has it for so long . |
| 13 | But you liked those erm were they countryman 's or ploughman 's in a packet and you just throw them into the pan and cook it for about fifteen minutes ? |
| 14 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 15 | It should be remembered that Hadley Wood tunnel and the East Coast main line was a favourite haunt of the Deltics that used it for almost all of their working life , so it is not surprising that one of their number should reappear on its familiar route . |
| 16 | want it for somewhere different from Marks and Spencers . |
| 17 | But forever lasted only a quarter of a century and now here you are , girding yourself for yet another forever with your mistress . |
| 18 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 19 | She studied me for about half a minute , then rearranged some of the knick-knacks on her stall . |
| 20 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 21 | So , and they charge you for how many electrons you use . |
| 22 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 23 | ‘ I had not seen you for over six months , ma'am , it was merely surprise that you have lost a little colour … ’ |
| 24 | It was dreadful to her to think that Rose was an amateur tart earning such a pittance in her legitimate work that she was ready to sell herself for so little . |
| 25 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 26 | She put her arms around his neck , and Edouard managed to resist her for about thirty seconds . |
| 27 | ‘ We should be able to track him for about half a mile , but with all these buildings we 'll be lucky to get two hundred yards . |
| 28 | She had n't seen him for nearly three months and she was struck anew by his good looks . |
| 29 | I 'm not very good with people and , even though Eric is my brother , I have n't seen him for over two years , since he went crazy . |
| 30 | Have n't seen him for about two weeks . |