Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 2 | ‘ Langstrath in Borrowdale is a particular favourite and I have painted that one lots of times , ’ he says Mr Healey , aged 57 , who lives in Kirkleatham Avenue , Redcar , left his job and enrolled on a teaching degree course at Teesside College of Education , to combine his love of painting with his desire to share the skill When he qualified in 1974 , he started teaching art at St. Thomas ' School , Middlesbrough , before moving to St. Peter 's Roman Catholic School , South Bank , where he has taught for 13 years . |
| 3 | The promotion means farewell to the Northern League middle , in which Winter has officiated for six years . |
| 4 | The question of Mr Brown 's achievements has become more pressing because of a Californian term-limits law ( yes , another initiative ) which will eject him by 1996 from the assembly where he has sat for 27 years . |
| 5 | Each pair was then vortex mixed for six seconds and centrifuged for 10 seconds , the supernatant stored , and the procedure repeated . |
| 6 | Each pair was then vortex mixed for six seconds and centrifuged for 10 seconds . |
| 7 | Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September . |
| 8 | Captain Fred Barker is Senior Master with the hunt , a man who has hunted for 44 years . |
| 9 | Nuclear weapons can not escape from the kinds of restraints built up carefully in the laws-of-war tradition over the centuries , but there is a risk that they may be thought to be so escaping ( especially in view of the UK and US reservations to 1977 Geneva Protocol I ) unless positive action in this direction is taken , The comparative neglect of the whole subject of laws-of-war restrictions on the use of nuclear weapons has endured for forty years , for reasons which can be understood if not approved . |
| 10 | Philip Tataurangi is 21 and a demon putter , arguably the boldest and best amateur golf has seen for ten years . |
| 11 | Military officials said a relief column heading for Huambo , where a battle has raged for six weeks , clashed with Unita forces about 60 miles from the city . |
| 12 | Some say that The Mercy Seat is the best thing Cave has done for five years , since Mutiny in Heaven . |
| 13 | The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years . |
| 14 | A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry . |
| 15 | Microsoft Corp last week announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 16 | Microsoft Corp yesterday also announced that it will stop selling its Cobol Professional Development System product on June 30 and instead reinforce the strategic alliance it has had for five years with Micro Focus Plc . |
| 17 | That is why Rugby Union nowadays would probably do just as well if the game built a system of scouting such as Rugby League has had for 100 years . |
| 18 | For one thing , I was extremely lucky in that the winter during which I was homeless was apparently the mildest this country has had for twenty years ( though it was quite cold enough for me ) and that was by no means the only remarkable piece of good fortune that I had . |
| 19 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 20 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , has called for fifty pence rise in petrol prices to be phased in to cut levels of carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 21 | Lineker has appeared 45 times for England and scored 29 goals ; Bull has played for 60 minutes and scored one , a smartly taken opportunity against Scotland in May . |
| 22 | Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel . |
| 23 | Over the past five months , rainfall has been well below average : the month of January was the driest London has experienced for 154 years . |
| 24 | Hitachi , with its partners Maxwell and Matsushita , has come up with a disc the same size , while a third combine headed by Seagate has opted for 3¼ inch ( 7–8 cm ) in an attempt to head off the Japanese competition . |
| 25 | The Chief Secretary has spoken for 22 minutes but has not mentioned the autumn statement . |
| 26 | PRINCESS Diana has returned the controversial £72,000 Mercedes sports car she has driven for 10 months . |
| 27 | This has remained for five generations in the same family , and roughly speaking with headquarters on the same site , whereas Smith 's ownership has passed through several families and occupied many addresses before settling in 1921 on 57–61 St Vincent Street . |
| 28 | The deal provokes further speculation that Rowland is preparing the way for a successor to take over the group he has led for 30 years . |
| 29 | A Norwegian university has asked for five people |
| 30 | Ethiopia has asked for 377,000 tonnes of food to fend off famine in Eritrea and Tigre . |