Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't want to get stabbed … or sent away for six months . |
| 2 | Calculate the over or under-absorbed overhead for each cost centre . |
| 3 | Many of us have tried to lose weight and failed miserably for one reason or another . |
| 4 | He and Judith had married , and lived happily for five years , until , for reasons he still did n't understand , their joy had foundered , and the two had become one . |
| 5 | Then the king 's son took her home to his father 's palace , and they were married , and lived happily for many years . |
| 6 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |
| 7 | They went to Tanzania for 17 years following Orton 's sacking as a cabinet minister after a dispute with the President , and lived there for 17 years . |
| 8 | Sathasivam Krishna Kumar ( " Kittu " ) , 31 , regarded as the LTTE number two and a member of its central committee , who had first arrived in the United Kingdom in October 1989 and applied unsuccessfully for political asylum there in August 1990 after the breakdown of peace talks with the Sri Lankan government , was told in early August 1991 that he had to leave the UK by Aug. 7 or face deportation , for having abused his refugee status by collecting funds and trying to procure arms . |
| 9 | Good location for local community and used extensively for other events/activities . |
| 10 | The generation of power from nuclear fission , generating intense radioactivity , has been developed and used commercially for several decades to meet part of the world demand for electrical energy . |
| 11 | Commodities which travelled in the opposite direction were salt , which came by sea from Cyprus , the Greek islands and Albania , and which was distributed by means of pack animals to Bosnia and Serbia ; and cereals brought in from the Aegean , Cyprus , Asia Minor and Sicily , and used mainly for local consumption . |
| 12 | Homes are now small , compact and designed principally for two adults and their children . |
| 13 | He started the car by letting it run downhill — Maxim had insisted they park so that there would be no give-away noise of the starter- and drove steadily for several miles . |
| 14 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 15 | Marked bays or shelving for each product type stocked should be allocated and reserved specifically for those products . |
| 16 | He was ordered complete rest and convalesced abroad for eight months before resuming work as consultant for the Skipton–Lancaster railway , at first jointly with Charles Vignoles [ q.v. ] and then as sole consultant . |
| 17 | He was on the other side of the road , saw me watching him , stopped , turned and walked slowly for fifty yards in the direction he had come . |
| 18 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 19 | The needle crept steadily up to Mach .99 and hung there for several seconds . |
| 20 | I stayed in Brazil and worked hard for some years . |
| 21 | The craft workers loved complicated and attractive patterns and looked constantly for new ways of elaborating old motifs , like the papyrus , and for new sources of artistic inspiration . |
| 22 | Whether hand-written or e-mail typed , these records are informal , frequently out of context or mixed in with other subjects and meant purely for internal consumption . |
| 23 | Should the project go ahead , spent fuel would be stored in a series of air-cooled concrete vaults and kept there for fifty years , after which the company would decide whether it was to be reprocessed or buried . |
| 24 | Similarly , extensive pastures can be at some distance , since animals can be walked there and kept there for some time by herdsmen . |
| 25 | She sobbed and sniffed and struggled incomprehensibly for several moments , fighting to control her tears . |
| 26 | A man exclaimed , ‘ Shit ! ’ and went away for real . |
| 27 | Whilst there I was introduced to the nearby Cheshire Home and went there for five weeks . |
| 28 | He was crazy about New York and went there for long weekends . |
| 29 | It would , of course , be rather unnatural if weaknesses within the school were n't quietly noted and stored away for future reference . |
| 30 | Such a curriculum had served well , and did so for many years afterwards , that small percentage ( less than 10$ ) who enjoyed grammar school education and were marked out to be the leaders of the nation . |