Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Your embassy has promised it for tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | Mr. Walker : As for that last phrase , the Hon. Gentleman obtained coverage in this morning 's papers , and I am surprised that he has repeated it for tomorrow 's . |
| 4 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
| 5 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 6 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 7 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 8 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 9 | No event , however unpleasant , could have marked her for ever . |
| 10 | Having known her for less than two months , he was not yet confident of any strong hold on her affections , despite the fact that she seemed quite willing to accept his embraces and kisses . |
| 11 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
| 12 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 13 | As time passed he compared notes , revised his dosages and kept an eye on the testing programme , but the thought that it was wrong does not appear to have troubled him for long . |
| 14 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |
| 17 | You 've all heard that and I 've heard it for about thirty years now . |
| 18 | This predicament forced him to examine his goals and to make one last push for the success which had eluded him for so long . |
| 19 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |
| 22 | Even that proved not enough to save her ; less than a year after her father 's passing , she finally succumbed to the illness which had beset her for so long , and was laid to rest at St John 's . |
| 23 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 24 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 25 | He had bought it for less than seventeen thousand and had spent five thousand on it to date , expecting to sell it for at least forty . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've mollied you for far too long . |
| 27 | so therefore they 've got it for as long they want it . |
| 28 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 29 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 30 | Well I , I , I , I 've see Mrs I 've had her for so many , many years |