Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 32 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 33 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
| 34 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 35 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 36 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 37 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 38 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 39 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 40 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 41 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 42 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 43 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 44 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 45 | When the Zombie had finished his walk , a more permanent method of protecting her for the next four months would have to be found . |
| 46 | But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years . |
| 47 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 48 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 49 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 50 | And that 's it for the first six thirty show of this week . |
| 51 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 52 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 53 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 54 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 55 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 56 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
| 57 | I thought about it for the prescribed two days , chanting , ‘ How do I get her to sign the form ? — How do I get her to sign the form ? ’ , then switched on the wireless in the middle of a biblical play about Moses and God 's voice boomed out of the speakers : |
| 58 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 59 | At the beginning of this erm programme he admitted that we had an excellent education service in Oxfordshire , and he 's now , having taken no part in managing it for the last five years , he is now claiming that in fact it 's due to what happened before . |
| 60 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |