Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 2 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 3 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 4 | But Lillywhite said : ‘ My Banana squad and manager Keith Lambert give me confidence to hold on for two more stages . |
| 5 | At the end of the 1975 season , he threw in the towel — though Hesketh , under Horsley , was to stagger on for two more years , with indifferent results . |
| 6 | Cannon , 39 , had intended to play on for one more season , but he has a back injury that may require surgery . |
| 7 | You keep it on for all that time ? |
| 8 | Daily assessment has gone on for all these years , with tests occasionally being undertaken — that is a reality . |
| 9 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 10 | will you sit down for two more minutes . |
| 11 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 12 | I should n't be surprised if we were in for some more snow . ’ |
| 13 | But I 'm certain , by doing it this way , we will encourage females to put in for these these posts . |
| 14 | Well I 'm staying up for one more game |
| 15 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm going to make up for all those nights apart . |
| 17 | After a Bible reading , usually by the headmaster , Mr Herbert Dennis , mornings consisted of six lesson periods , interrupted by a break during which the students queued up for two half slices of bread known as ‘ geordie . ’ |
| 18 | He was due to read his own poems , but he prefaced the performance with remarking how extraordinary he found it that students obliged to attend lectures should want to turn up for more such talk after hours . |
| 19 | Thus if , in a sample of 500 people , the quota of women aged between thirty and forty is twenty-two , the researcher will look out for twenty-two such women and , when they have been found and interviewed , that is the quota filled . |
| 20 | I would say , ‘ 74D in for refreshments ’ — recorded in a book and in that half hour , I had to make my tea , eat my sandwiches , wash my cup , put on my coat or whatever I was wearing — cape if it was raining — and be out for that half hour . |
| 21 | Paul Dodge , once the hard centre amongst England 's backs , is recovering from a pulled hamstring and expects to make the Orrell trip , but there are still doubts about the fitness of John Wells , the England B flanker whose hamstring problems may keep him out for two more weeks . |
| 22 | so you 'd be paying out for some more tyres if you do n't have that checked or anything |
| 23 | So up we 'd go and we 'd have to keep the crowd back and the object was to wait for Mary to come out for some more beer which was the pub across the road , and when she did , grab her . |
| 24 | I debated whether to be sick or not myself , and decided that I could hold out for another half hour . |
| 25 | ‘ He wo n't be back for another half hour . |
| 26 | You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ? |
| 27 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |