Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next morning Davis laid about himself for 77 , his highest first-class score , Botham again bowling poorly and being punished for it . |
| 2 | Yes , if the sun were to go out now we would n't know about it for eight minutes . |
| 3 | What I was able to do in that instance was play all the symphonies through with the orchestra and then forget about them for three months . |
| 4 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 5 | ‘ Say what you like , there 's no way I 'm going to agree to work for you for three years . |
| 6 | He asked us to call a group together , black and white , to meet with him for two days to seek God 's guidance together . |
| 7 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 8 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 9 | ‘ In the voting booth , ’ he said : ‘ If you will be my voice , I will speak for you for four years . ’ |
| 10 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 11 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 12 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 13 | I speak with them for forty minutes and generally have my socks charmed from my feet , the spring put in my step and all semblance of a chill factor taken from this typical October evening . |
| 14 | To adhere to the ( 1855 ) treaty that has been made , and which we on our side have kept … you have broken the treaty not we … that engagement was made with us for 20 years … |
| 15 | Well you see been hiring from me for ten years . |
| 16 | She 's suffered from it for 30 years . |
| 17 | You you walk round the flats , and you know , you walk round them for fourteen months , and all of a sudden you have to stop and think where you are . |
| 18 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 19 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 20 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 21 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 22 | I 've done without her for two months now . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I can do without you for six weeks , Buzz . |
| 24 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 25 | if you get started you can , you palm , the pattern comes back and you follow it through and you get the answer , erm , need to do it every , maybe sort of about once a month or so , for each topic , do n't let a topic go for about a month without you looking at it for ten minutes or so , and it will be surprising how that little bit of effort keeps it in your mind , so when you come to the exam you do n't sit down there and go , oh , it 's two months ago , I was doing everyone right , wonderful |
| 26 | ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house . |
| 27 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 28 | " I 've been waiting for you for six hours . |
| 29 | For example I had my bottom wiped for me for six weeks . |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps you can look after her for five minutes while I go and book the rooms ? ’ |