Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] for five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some say that The Mercy Seat is the best thing Cave has done for five years , since Mutiny in Heaven . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A Recorder who has served for five years may be appointed as a Circuit judge . |
| 6 | That has lasted for five centuries , which is long enough ; especially oil painting which certainly does n't last forever , and may possibly disappear completely . |
| 7 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 8 | I 'll even get married for five years if you want . |
| 9 | Norton et al found that 25%-35% of women had delayed for five years or more before seeking medical advice . |
| 10 | Beside it , a large window showed the first view that Tug had seen for five days . |
| 11 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 12 | We had driven for five hours in open lorries through a rainstorm , climbing into the foothills of the Alps and then across a wilderness of a training area , with sharp mountains and expanses of harsh , windblown moorland . |
| 13 | A salvage team had battled for five days to refloat the ship using a tug whose crew had managed to get a line on board . |
| 14 | The applicant , who was strongly connected to the voters of Angus , sought Panmure 's assistance to obtain a post of inspector of customs for his son , Robert Fullerton , who had served for five years as clerk of the customs and had acted as inspector when some of these officers were under suspension . |
| 15 | It was a freezing morning and the Section had run for five miles over muddy paths and swampy fields . |
| 16 | He 's a Kate Bush fan , not domestic at all , he needs ironing lessons , and we 've worked five w , we 've worked for five weeks together to go over territory , and before he joined er , a large part of his career was in contract services and projects and business development in ex-army . |
| 17 | These included a photograph of Weisdale Voe , taken from his local in Shetland where he had lived for five years ; photographs of himself and friends on Lost City trips ; and photographs and posters relating to his prime interests , those of a naturalist , a birder , a twitcher . |
| 18 | but by the time they 've stood for five minutes they are . |
| 19 | The cadets , who had fasted for five days , now gorged themselves on toxic fungi from a death world specially grown in the hydro-culture vats , slurped up glutinous soup made from decomposing venom-gland fish , devoured foul cadavers heaped with stenchful excremental sauce , and chewed their way through discarded parchment and leather , while officers , Battle Brothers , and older cadets dined more modestly on fresh fruit and vegetables . |
| 20 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |
| 21 | Helen had waited for five minutes , not knowing at all why , then followed him into the bedroom . |
| 22 | At his trial , Nicolae Ceauşescu simply switched into the public half of the doublethink which he had imbibed for five decades . |
| 23 | Yeah the pension 's frozen for five years and and then catches up . |
| 24 | If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son . |
| 25 | The Minister is aware that those who work for 16 hours or less do not have the right to itemised pay statements unless they have worked for five years and that those who work less than eight hours have no right to them at all . |
| 26 | She 's paid for five hours a week , three on a Monday , one on Wednesday and one on Friday , that 's what she 's supposed to do . |