Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight — you know , like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines . |
| 2 | By 1832 an enormous wing was attached to Forston 's north side which stretched for five hundred feet and accommodated 65 patients and half as many staff . |
| 3 | The incident sparked off a riot which lasted for three days [ see p. 37081 ] , and racial tension had been high during the trial . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 5 | This battle which lasted for forty years ended in the passing of the Medway Conservancy Act of 1881 . |
| 6 | The turning-point in Lynn 's career came in 1922 when Leslie Henson and Tom Walls [ qq.v. ] cast him in Tons of Money , a sparkling farce which ran for two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre . |
| 7 | While this figure represented only 46.15 per cent of total export earnings as against 52.23 per cent in 1989 , it was believed to be linked to a rise in the export of machinery and transport equipment which accounted for 32.3 per cent of total export earnings . |
| 8 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 9 | ‘ If the country were governed from here , we 'd be far better off , ’ says a Tory peer who sat for three decades in the Commons . |
| 10 | This is the tale of 575237 Bowers R C , an ex-Halton apprentice who served for 38 years with the RAF before retiring as Wing Commander Engineer . |
| 11 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 12 | He won 31 caps — a record which stood for 42 years . |
| 13 | Hollywood began to wake up to black culture , spurred on by statistics showing that although blacks only made up 12 per cent of the nation 's population they accounted for 25 per cent of America 's cinema audiences and were the fastest growing segment of US population . |
| 14 | By the end of the war he accounted for thirty-five more spies to complete a wartime record which impressed the general staff and ensured the continuance of his organization into the peace , though on a much reduced basis from his final wartime strength of 800 . |
| 15 | After the war he served for 30 years in the history section of the |
| 16 | In 1935 he became literary editor of the Listener , a post he held for twenty-four years . |
| 17 | A MAN caught drinking and driving was so anxious about his punishment he absconded for six months , a court heard yesterday . |
| 18 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 19 | These purchases were made despite what Hall describes as her ‘ antipathy for the firm ’ , aggravated by the fact that a Guardi which Berenson had offered to her was sold to another client , and that she learnt of a discrepancy between the price she paid for two Holbeins and the monies paid to the owners , the Pole-Carews . |
| 20 | A farm on the other side of the lane provided fresh eggs , the stench of cow shit , and a rabid mongrel roped to a tree who barked for twenty minutes whenever a car went by . |
| 21 | A black , beady eye caught the light as it moved on short , powerful legs and toes , and as it crossed the clearing it paused for one brief moment to utter a shrill and prolonged , ‘ Kee … wee … | . ’ |
| 22 | Do you know the share he bought for ten p each last week went down to three and a half pence each . |
| 23 | At that time he travelled on a little inter-island plane to the northerly island of Westray to teach for two days a week ; for a while he taught for two days on the island of Sanday as well . |
| 24 | This stopped the hiccups and calmed him down , and that night he slept for sixteen hours . |
| 25 | The elimination of corruption from the party was one of the major demands of the pro-democracy movement which flourished for seven weeks between April to June 1989 before being brutally suppressed by the armed forces . |
| 26 | Dozens of popular tourist spots across the world were represented at the exhibition which ran for five days . |
| 27 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 28 | But Rush is confident that any animosity has long-since faded and that his former boss is due for a hero 's welcome when he leads his side out at the ground he graced for 14 illustrious years as player and manager . |
| 29 | A move to restrict the use of juries in libel actions was defeated in 1981 , largely as a result of public satisfaction at the performance of the jury which sat for six months to hear the claim for libel brought by the head of the " Moonies " in England against the " Daily Mail " . |
| 30 | One child had previous failure to thrive and developed diarrhoea which persisted for 14 days ; the other eight failed to thrive after the onset of diarrhoea . |