Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 2 | I 've seen her for a few minutes , but now they 've taken her to be X-rayed . |
| 3 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 4 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 5 | ‘ I have forgiven you for the same ! ’ |
| 6 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 7 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 8 | You 've had it for a few years too . |
| 9 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 10 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 11 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 13 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |
| 14 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |