Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Just you bear in mind that you 've got me now , Kate , and you 'll have me for as long as you want me .
2 I hold him with me for as long as I can before my leg goes dead .
3 Creating flower wreaths and circles is a family tradition — Elizabeth Jane has been making them for as long as she can remember .
4 But they could lie safely among them for as long as they liked , and they could move through them easily and unseen .
5 I do n't know why I kept them for as long as I did .
6 In terms of giving teachers more chances to learn and to develop it comes down to releasing them for as long as they can with some financial help , some doubling-up of teaching and a well-organized use of locally managed funds .
7 The fields which Miss Lockwood owned are also left to you , Sara , with the provision that Mr. Preston must have the use of them for as long as he requires for his horses . "
8 She is yours for as long as you care to keep her .
9 ‘ Whilst you remain here with us — and let me say here and now that there will be a place here for you for as long as you wish — you will share in the life of the household and have all provided .
10 ‘ Well , Kate , I 'll be here for you for as long as you want me .
11 I mean , Chrissie , are you allowed to have a wedding ceremony tha tha which says erm I 'll love you for as long as I can possibly manage ?
12 I 'm surprised he stuck to you for as long as he did . ’
13 ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’
14 ‘ But after knowing you for as long as I have — ’
15 I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember .
16 He then makes the kind of silly gaffe — getting his hair cut while Air Force One sits at Los Angeles airport , closing down two runways — that will be the stuff of jokes about him for as long as he is in public life .
17 I 've wanted him for as long as I can remember . "
18 The femininity of Woman with its emphasis on the role of wife and mother , is vastly different from that of Cosmopolitan , where the feminine woman is encouraged to be adventurous in catching the most sexually desirable man , retaining him for as long as he is interesting , and getting a super job into the bargain .
19 Oh , yes , he was himself again , he would be trailing this glory after him for as long as it still shed lustre .
20 My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could .
21 She watched him for as long as she could bear to , anger warring with a sense of duty , then abruptly she marched into the house , and with gritted teeth and a distinctly martyred feeling she began to resentfully sort out a bag to take with her to Soufrière .
22 Knowing him for as long as I have done must have worked in my favour . ’
23 She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now .
24 My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone .
25 Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember .
26 I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again .
27 He put his hand over the flame of the lamp and said to Stricker : ‘ Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame . ’
28 She was the daughter of an earl , well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil , and he had known her for as long as he could remember .
29 She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house .
30 For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that .
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