Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1954 the Nordic Council agreed to work for as comprehensive a Nordic common market as possible , and a committee was set up to study the question . |
| 2 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 3 | On the fourth side was the meeting chamber or auditorium which provided seating for over 1200 persons . |
| 4 | The program used allowed for only nine different liability classes . |
| 5 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 6 | ‘ When I compared notes with managers in places like Glasgow and Manchester , I found that women there seemed to go for more restrained , less glitzy clothes . |
| 7 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 9 | We thought he 'd burst in and take away everything we had — everything I 'd worked for so long and so hard , and he did n't deserve any of it . |
| 10 | When they 'd chattered for about ten minutes Walt said : |
| 11 | At the same time , welfare benefits were increased but this did produce complaints about ‘ idlers ’ and ‘ scroungers ’ , across-the-board welfare payments were becoming increasingly expensive and some Labour Party members began to press for more selective methods of eliminating poverty . |
| 12 | Green activists made some chilling discoveries when they went looking for environmentally friendly fridges . |
| 13 | I went looking for somewhere cheaper to — ’ |
| 14 | went missing for about four hours and when it eventually bolted out this hole it run straight up him and curled up to him . |
| 15 | In the event , although the Victoria Press did last for over twenty years , and despite the creation in London in 1876 of the rather similar Women 's Printing Society , which also paid the full male rate , women compositors never penetrated the London trade to any extent . |
| 16 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 17 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 18 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 19 | He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian . |
| 20 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 21 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 22 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 23 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 24 | Silence had fallen for almost three weeks and then her father had written again , with the utmost brevity , to say he would review the situation when he saw it and that they could get away after the harvest . |
| 25 | Well , would n't you if you had to work for only one night a year ? |
| 26 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 27 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 28 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |
| 29 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 30 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |