Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The haemoglobin concentration continued to fall for two days after his admission , reaching a nadir of 61 g/l . |
| 2 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 3 | Most of us , as people who live in this world , are interested in our environment , and even if not young we certainly grow to appreciate it and to learn a bit about flowers and the way animals live and work in our garden and watching David Attenborough on television and erm we have a genuine interest because as part of this world we know it and come to understand it , and probably feel , therefore , if even if you 're not a biology specialist , which you certainly do n't have to be by any means , when a child asks a question about , you know , ‘ where do the flies go in winter ? ’ and ‘ why 's the hamster gone to sleep for three months ? ’ we feel more capable of answering it because we 're closer to it ourselves and those are the sorts of questions that people told us . |
| 4 | After 10 min , a preheated mixture of heparin and the four NTPs was added and transcription allowed to proceed for 10 min at the same temperature . |
| 5 | After 10 min , a preheated mixture of heparin and the four NTPs was added and transcription allowed to proceed for 10 min at the same temperature . |
| 6 | After 10 min , a preheated mixture of heparin and the four NTPs was added and transcription allowed to proceed for 10 min at the same temperature . |
| 7 | For example , a purchaser of 9 1/2 % Treasury 1999 at £100 27/32 will in addition have to pay for 26 days accrued interest . |
| 8 | Then the authority has to decide for one of the two or more acceptable options . |
| 9 | The Midland Guaranteed Capital Bond is a unit-linked single premium life assurance policy designed to run for five years . |
| 10 | From 20% in 1980 , investment banking grew to account for two-thirds of the business at the bigger houses in the go-go days . |
| 11 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the same music had to serve for six more stanzas — Pisano wrote fresh music for the short final one and therefore could not reflect details of the text . |
| 13 | The ballet appears to call for eight double-reed players , 18 strings , a bass who can dance , and a tenor willing to sing soprano . |
| 14 | Under it daimyo had to reside for one year out of every two in the capital , and leave their wives and families in permanent residence there . |
| 15 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 16 | The Russians watched all this with much amusement , and then sent an official protest note ( which the Foreign Office managed to lose for five days ) demanding an explanation . |