Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Gooch , manager Keith Fletcher and England chairman Ted Dexter all praised the Whittingdale sponsorship which has allowed them to gather together for two days in each of the last six weeks . |
2 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
3 | I mean obviously for thirty |
4 | ‘ I lived here for three years , if you want to be precise . ’ |
5 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
6 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
7 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
8 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
9 | I served there for thirteen year , became a chargehand eventually and eventually the f the firm folded up . |
10 | I packed up I packed up for two and a half years and then erm when we went to Spain in August , no in October , the four girls went me and me two sisters and a friend from work , Barbara . |
11 | Daphne recalls how , early on , ‘ I made the mistake of allowing one to become too fond of me and , when I went away for two weeks , she died of a broken heart . |
12 | In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) . |
13 | Just before Christmas I moved jobs , and in the middle of January I went away for three days on a course . |
14 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
15 | I experienced the medical practice side , I went out for two or three assignments to get a feel for it and it 's doable . |
16 | No it was our summer holiday , I went off for two weeks , when I came back Paula was off for a month . |
17 | Yes , her and I went together for seventeen year , before us got married . ’ |
18 | A dress I , I sent off for two sizes , I 'm glad I did now because I thought you know that the small one would be okay for them , but it 's not , there 's the hat |
19 | I do not for one minute believe that we shall hand over everything that this country has ever stood for in terms of its independence . |
20 | A letter dated March 2nd already betrays some misgiving through its protestation : ‘ I do n't for one minute doubt about the fall of Verdun . ’ |
21 | I think so for two reasons , because erm what was it that one planner said , that planning is the art of which geography is the science . |
22 | And I cried solidly for four days . |
23 | ‘ It was so late when we finished yesterday that I queued up for 20 minutes for a takeaway hamburger , ’ he said . |
24 | and erm I went to school at then at the later part of my life I went to Hemel Hempstead and then I left only for four months and went to er work for an ironmonger at ten shillings a week . |
25 | Eventually Jim 's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros . |
26 | yesterday I have n't for four for five years . |
27 | I 've already told him I 'm gon na get my arse kicked cos I have n't for eight you see . |
28 | Not that I am old or likely to fall , not that I have ever for one moment been unsteady on my feet . |
29 | After being hired ‘ I sat here for five weeks waiting for a telephone call , ’ says Terry Chellew , the boss of IDG 's British magazines . |
30 | I stayed away for three days , and then I came home . |