Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 2 | Mr Najibullah , many of his key ministers , elite units of the Afghan army and most of the Pakistan-based Mujahideen groups are members of the Pushtun tribes which have dominated Afghanistan for 200 years . |
| 3 | I had n't seen Malc for some months . |
| 4 | I had not seen Hugo for three hours . |
| 5 | Gatsby is very nervous , as he has n't seen Daisy for many years and if she no longer loves him his whole purpose for living has gone . |
| 6 | For a start , she had n't seen Rosemary for fifteen minutes and she did not want her to feel left out . |
| 7 | She was suddenly hungry , being young and having pushed Charlotte for several miles on a cold October afternoon , and longed for a bar of chocolate . |
| 8 | your employee has had SSP for 28 weeks in the PIW |
| 9 | And I cried , I must have cried Kate for two hours . |
| 10 | You can register this program for only £5 — see the file called REGISTER.COM for more details . |
| 11 | Ron Gammons has raced and rallied MGBs for 30 years . |
| 12 | I had known Katharine for many years , and , in common with other members of the Kingman Committee , I had been impressed by her presentation when she appeared before us to answer questions . |
| 13 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 14 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 15 | I have known Trevor for many years and he is a mass of seething hate before breakfast most days , so I could smell the revenge in him even above ‘ Jock ’ McDougall 's armpits before we left the changing room this afternoon . |
| 16 | Janet Bush said : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
| 17 | She told the court : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
| 18 | Janet Bush said : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
| 19 | She told the court : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
| 20 | Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've known Billy for many years . |
| 22 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 23 | Erm I 've known John for many years . |
| 24 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 25 | His military government had ruled Mali for 23 years . |
| 26 | Many of us have already served JS for ten years , with many more , we hope , to come . |
| 27 | Rashidov , who died in 1983 , was a CPSU politburo member under Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and had ruled Uzbekistan for 24 years during which several major corruption scandals , uncovered in 1988-89 , were perpetrated . |
| 28 | Joseph M. McDade , a Republican congressman who had represented Pennsylvania for 30 years , was on May 5 charged with racketeering , conspiracy and falsifying his financial disclosure statements . |
| 29 | It has run Bavaria for 30 years and the state premiership is in its gift . |
| 30 | Some observers are predicting the imminent collapse of the military regime which has ruled Ethiopia for 15 years . |