Example sentences of "[pers pn] for the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corridors of the BBC are long and pea-green ( the 1984 setting of Orwell 's book , reputedly ) , and I followed a uniformed attendant through and round them for the obligatory ten miles before happening upon Studio B10 . |
| 2 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 4 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 5 | ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 9 | Hill 's ban ended in time for the 1987 World Cup but Bristol 's Richard Harding , who replaced him for the final Five Nations match — a stirring victory over Scotland — was first-choice in Australia and Hill 's last game for two years was against the United States . |
| 10 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 11 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 12 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 13 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 : |
| 20 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 21 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 22 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 23 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 24 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 25 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 26 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |
| 27 | He had recently moved out to a house in the suburbs , and he sublet the house to us for the remaining three months on his lease . |
| 28 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 29 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |