Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 2 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 3 | I permit the incidents of the past to haunt me for just seven days of each year . |
| 4 | He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years . |
| 5 | Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours ! |
| 6 | yesterday right in the park and he hugged me for about ten years . |
| 7 | He was called Chip and he stayed with me for around eight years . |
| 8 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 9 | I have n't spoken to them for nearly two weeks . ’ |
| 10 | Houghton has worked with them for nearly three years but at times still feels like a stranger . |
| 11 | Jane Austen has her abbeys too , but she values them for rather different reasons . |
| 12 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 13 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 14 | He 'd heard nothing from them for over three months , and was forced to assume that they were either dead , or prisoners of the Nazis . |
| 15 | Mr Maxwell bought them for around 5 times that much . |
| 16 | Palaeontologists almost universally denied both these implications of the molecular research and continued denying them for almost 15 years . |
| 17 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 18 | He says he worked with them for about seven months . |
| 19 | You 're only , I think you 're only supposed to use them for a , a few months , I 've been using them for about three years . |
| 20 | Shape the mixture into smallish hamburgers in the palm of your hands and , turning them once , grill them for about 5-7 minutes depending on how rare you like the meat . |
| 21 | With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’ |
| 22 | When the new system is introduced the caretaking staff will not be amongst those identified as operators and it is intended that these revised hours will assist caretaking staff by freeing them for more appropriate duties . |
| 23 | When pressure was put on them for more radical appointments , invitations were mostly too late to make any significant impact . |
| 24 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I have , but I 'd rather keep them for more important things . |
| 25 | WHEN people digest the high living styles of star England cricketers like David Gower and Ian Botham , the inference is that I must be well off too , having played alongside them for so many years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Although the Chinese transformed rhinoceros horn into forms of customary refinement , it seems unlikely that they went to the trouble of removing agglutinated masses of hair from rhinoceros snouts and lavishing such skill on them for purely aesthetic reasons . |
| 28 | He thought that the inhabitants of Chios , who according to tradition had introduced slavery into Greece , deserved the punishment of being themselves enslaved , which Mithridates had inflicted on them for quite different reasons ( fr. 38 Jacoby ) . |
| 29 | To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do . |
| 30 | Allison had three spells at City , returning to them after apparently unbreachable rifts like Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor . |