Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've worked hard for this house over the past three years . |
| 2 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 3 | The trustees in acting prudently on investments need to take advice , and , and we have done so for many years , and our investment advisors are currently Schroder Investment Management Limited . |
| 4 | Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years . |
| 5 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 6 | All of these different methods however produce significant measures of mobility deprivation in rural areas , and since neither the conventional nor innovative approaches to public transport have been shown to do more than ameliorate or delay the decline in rural transport provision , many authors have called either for some of the options in Figure 6. 1b or for a ‘ total approach ’ to the problem . |
| 7 | This year I think it 's the first week in July we have set aside for this purpose . |
| 8 | Incidentally , many of you have continued faithfully for several years to send me your used AMNESTY journals . |
| 9 | Branch manager attributes their success to their vast experience and the fact they have worked together for such a long time . |
| 10 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 11 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 12 | ‘ We have worked hard for this one and victory will be sweet . |
| 13 | ‘ They blame us for their problems , I mean even though we have lived here for many , many generations . |
| 14 | You have lived here for half of your life . |
| 15 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
| 16 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |