Example sentences of "[adv prt] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 2 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 3 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 4 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 5 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 6 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 7 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 8 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
| 9 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 10 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 11 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 12 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 13 | The whole thing becomes one fluid manoeuvre with power on for the maximum possible time . |
| 14 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 15 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 16 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
| 17 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 18 | There is only , well there are sixteen hours that er that Norman 's put down for the total technical work supervision on the job , I would have thought that perhaps that might be quite tight , er you know bearing in mind that it 's maybe a job that requires a |
| 19 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 20 | The annual growth of world trade in 1991 slowed down for the third successive year , according to the annual report of the Director-General of GATT , issued on March 18 . |
| 21 | Michelle has been paralysed from the chest down for the past 11 years — the result , she claims , of a routine jaw operation she underwent at Poole General Hospital in November 1982 . |
| 22 | Piloted by Hoof Proudfoot , the Lightning flew with the undercarriage locked down for the 35 minute flight back to base . |
| 23 | It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly . |
| 24 | Nobody , though , captured the Bull Dog spirit like quarter-miler Derek Redmond , hopping along for the final 200 metres with a busted hamstring and his dad 's help . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 26 | And that is how I have got along for the last sixty six years . |
| 27 | Back in the good old days , you could manage your practice with nothing more complicated or technologically advanced than a pen , paper and adding machine , with a manual typewriter thrown in for the real forward thinkers . |
| 28 | It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days . |
| 29 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 30 | That , that is , that is the way that they were chosen , and two years ago , I think , we put one point two million pounds in for the first seven schemes . |