Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had obviously been well cared for throughout her illness — but then , Shiona had never for one moment doubted that . |
| 2 | That they went just past the half-thousand was mainly due to Sohail , but the neat little Asif Mujtaba beavered away for 57 , and at tea the score stood at 252 for 2 , Sohail having gone to his century , the first ever for Pakistan in a Manchester Test , with an ondriven three from his 127th ball . |
| 3 | With Spain pushing hard for one of the first six seeded places , England could find themselves unseeded and playing in Sicily too , as the side ranked No.2 in a Group F headed by Belgium . |
| 4 | Nigel stayed away for two , three years … ’ |
| 5 | Helen got away for one day and they spent nine hours together in the open air . |
| 6 | South and west of the Canaries , the Atlantic extends emptily for thousands of kilometres , broken only by the Cape Verde Islands ( also volcanic ) and two tiny specks of land , St Peter and St Paul 's Rocks , which are not strictly volcanic , oddly enough , but are composed of material that must have been derived from much deeper levels in the Earth than most volcanic rocks . |
| 7 | Atherton batted beautifully for 42 but then left kicking himself for slamming a wide ball from Reiffel straight to cover off the back foot . |
| 8 | In a bare , narrow room , which also served as Zbo 's ‘ gallery ’ , Modigliani worked daily for fifteen francs . |
| 9 | Thus Richard Baxter laboured solidly for fourteen years in Kidderminster , and the Lord was pleased to bless the ministry of His servant to an extraordinary degree . |
| 10 | Bob works relentlessly for one purpose ; that his music could change mankind 's thinking to bring about unity among the races , and more so for the oppressed people . |
| 11 | Greenidge , Gomes and Dujon all made fifties , but Ellison bowled well for 5 for 78 , and restricting the total to 307 was hailed as a mini-triumph . |
| 12 | Congregationalist , Philip Doddridge preached here for 22 years and became a famous local figure . |
| 13 | Leeds dominated TOTALLY for 65 minutes . |
| 14 | Luke stayed away for two weeks , during which time Maria had convinced herself that she was unlikely ever to see him again without actively seeking him out , so she could only stare incredulously for several seconds when she opened her apartment door in response to the bell 's summons early on a Friday evening and found him standing there . |