Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are many , priests too , who would wipe out in a day all the familiar things about Mother Church that endear her to us all , even the precepts and practices that are the reason she has survived for all these nineteen hundred years . |
| 2 | Neighbours complained that 90-year-old Gladys Mills was making too much noise at her flat in Weymouth , Dorset , where she has lived for 12 years . |
| 3 | By the time she has budgeted for these basics she has £50 left for the six-week holiday . |
| 4 | I have heard of other appointments which she has blocked for similar reasons , and in my lifetime can recall no other Prime Minister , Labour or Conservative , who felt the need to exercise such petty partisanship . |
| 5 | For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying . |
| 6 | She has argued for more competition in state lottery tenders . |
| 7 | She teaches in a middle school where she has worked for many years . |
| 8 | Although she can now refit a car by herself , she wo n't qualify fully until she has worked for two years and passed her City and Guilds ‘ hand on ’ course . |
| 9 | MORAG MACDONALD Company secretary at the Post Office , where she has worked for 22 years . |
| 10 | Jo emphasised the need for good movement and footwork on the court and acknowledged the work of her fitness advisor , Len Heppel , with whom she has worked for three years . |
| 11 | Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel . |
| 12 | Whether Evert has , in fact , bowed out from the sport she has graced for two decades remains to been seen . |
| 13 | PRINCESS Diana has returned the controversial £72,000 Mercedes sports car she has driven for 10 months . |
| 14 | Beryl Smith is giving up these classes all of which she has taken for many years . |
| 15 | Oh yeah I know she 's played for four times |
| 16 | But no , she 's gone for this promotion in work and er even though she does n't think she 's much chance of getting it because there 's two permanent lads there that really you know would be next in line rather than her sort of thing but she 's you know , she feels she 's done her bit and that , you know , it 's worth going for and like I said to her you might as well ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And she 's paid for eleven hours . |
| 19 | ‘ The greatest mistake any adversary could make would be to doubt America 's resolve during this period of transition , ’ Clinton said in a statement outside the Arkansas governor 's mansion in Little Rock , where he has lived for 12 of the last 14 years . |
| 20 | An example of a limitation clause is where a supplier of computer software limits his liability for faulty software to the licence fee he has received for that software . |
| 21 | He has studied for four years at the Beda College in Rome . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The 32-year-old central defender will hand in his application this week to a club he has served for nine years in two spells . |
| 24 | He has served for 30 years as the local church warden and he spent 42 years as treasurer of the local branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | He has called for secret police to track down those spreading rumours of early elections , and recently warned golfers ( who include many rich Kenyans ) against anti-government talk on the fairways . |
| 27 | And you have Rochester who has erm he 's not exactly been a degenerate and he has shown some restraint , he has cared for this wife , he 's brought her home . |
| 28 | He has prepared for civilian life by going on a butcher 's course . |
| 29 | His proud mother , Rita Coyne , said : ‘ He has struggled for two and a half years and is now determined to live life to the full . ’ |
| 30 | But such is his love for the game he has adorned for close on a decade that he never gave up hope of a return to the big time . |