Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case , you may want to opt for one of the newer washer/dryers that combine both facilities . |
| 2 | Should have gone for two should n't I ? |
| 3 | Well then I must have cried for two hours and |
| 4 | You must have worked for 13 weeks to be entitled to a statutory statement of the main terms of your employment . |
| 5 | Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 . |
| 6 | But while the FA Cup can still turn dreams into reality , the Second Division might have to settle for one representative at Wembley after tomorrow 's semi-finals . |
| 7 | This could include providing for zero quotas on all African nations — or selectively reducing quotas to help stop poached ivory slipping into legal trade . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd like to play for one of the glamour clubs like Wigan or Leeds and one day play at Wembley , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I 'd like to work for one of the building societies and get a cheap mortgage . |
| 10 | She was sixteen-years-old but with her slim , petite figure and attractive features she could have passed for twenty . |
| 11 | Who 's Who had revealed him to be seventy-four : in the flesh he could have passed for ten years younger , despite having a head entirely free of hair . |
| 12 | The old scribe would shake his head : ‘ I could have tried for 20 years and still not come up with an opening paragraph like that , ’ he would say . |
| 13 | Yeah , originally they 'd have ducked for three |
| 14 | You may have to wait for one or two things but you know like like copy sometimes but I did n't used to send them s erm er contracts in unless they had everything . |
| 15 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 16 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 17 | I would be happy to hear from any priest who feels he would like to volunteer for five years or from suitably qualified people who might have some skill to offer . |
| 18 | Stockings were never long enough and the tension between suspender and stocking-top would result in spring-loaded legs ; if you had to run for a bus , the legs would keep going for three stops . |
| 19 | Precisely how these new popular energies would influence the world of high politics could not be anticipated : perhaps the movement would have to wait for one of Cobden 's ‘ accidents ’ . |
| 20 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 21 | Yes because in practice what the will would say is that the spouse would have to survive for twenty eight days , th the usual phraseology . |
| 22 | The 35 million Christmas trees bought this year would have to rot for 30 years before decomposing in dumps that are already overflowing . |
| 23 | Existing East German laws on abortion would continue to apply for two years pending a new law to be passed by the all-German parliament ( thus resolving the issue which had caused most dispute among the parties at the end of negotiations on the treaty ) . |
| 24 | Wendy managed to get a job as a receptionist in a dental surgery to begin with and will keep applying for one of the hygienist training courses . |
| 25 | When we get to 12 o'clock , some of them will have waited for three hours . |
| 26 | If both confess , then both will go to jail for five years . |
| 27 | The prosecutor tells them that if they both confess they will go to jail for ten years ; if neither confesses they will get two years ; if only one confesses he ( the confessor ) will get just one year while his fellow prisoner goes down for 20 . |
| 28 | We hope the human race will continue to exist for millions of years , and grow to more understanding but , in the year 2020 , the world seems to be falling apart at the seams . ’ |
| 29 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |