Example sentences of "[verb] her for [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She put her arms around his neck , and Edouard managed to resist her for about thirty seconds . |
| 3 | I ai n't seen her for about two months . |
| 4 | We have n't seen her for about ten , twelve years and er |
| 5 | Margaret she 's coming to this do we 're going to , I have n't seen her for about forty years . |
| 6 | Keep putting up , we 've had her for about two years have n't we ? |
| 7 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 8 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 9 | I see her for about ten minutes a week . |
| 10 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |