Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 2 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 3 | Budd 's tome Zola , written for her , pours out the turmoil and blame for the five years she spent trying to run with a foot in two worlds . |
| 4 | The Board of Trade 's official figure for 1892 was 20,000 and for 1893 , 15,000 but for the latter year it may actually have been less , little more than 12,000 . |
| 5 | But I mean for the first year she wo n't be in , if she goes into student , she 'll be in college |
| 6 | Well I mean for the first year she wo n't be in if she goes in as a student she 'll be in college . |
| 7 | Many companies give an indication of how easy ( or difficult ! ) each plant is to raise so I 'd suggest that for the first year you stick with fairly easy ones , perhaps trying a couple of ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 8 | For the first year I had a room on campus but I was n't happy there so I returned to Cliff Top , where my mother put one of the caravans at my disposal . |
| 9 | For the first year it is in continual body contact with its mother , clinging tightly to her as she travels and climbing all over her when she stops . |
| 10 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 11 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 12 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |
| 13 | But for the past year she 's faced the very real possibility of losing the Inn that 's been her life because Whitbreads decided to sell it off along with other pubs to meet the demands of the Monopolies Commission , which had demanded it must get rid of half its tied houses . |
| 14 | Unix System Laboratories Europe has appointed Irwan Owen as account manager for the UK and Ireland — for the past year he has been USL 's account manager for Italy . |
| 15 | If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already . |
| 16 | you ha , it 's first time for the whole year you 've seen some of them , and so on . |
| 17 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 18 | Alice Cox was later to swear on oath that , for the three years she had known Laura , she was only visited by one man other than Charles . |
| 19 | For the last year we have lived together in my flat . |
| 20 | I know , for the last year we 've been saying we 'll go to Norwich |
| 21 | For the last year he 's been setting out his story in his autobiography , a glimpse into decision making during operations like Desert Storm and an insight to his personal life . |
| 22 | There 's been a new headmaster for the last year I think so I do n't know what he |
| 23 | ‘ For the next year I devoured every written word I could find on dolphins and whales . |
| 24 | It is a struggle Ellen and no mistake and though I have been thrifty as mother brought us all up to be and the rent is paid for the next year I am hard put to pay wages and still eat and keep warm . |
| 25 | Computer 2000 AG , Munich said its group sales rose 50% to the equivalent of $660m in the first five months of its current fiscal to September 30 : for the full year it is going for 45% growth to $1,600m . |
| 26 | Duncan must have been the mountain man of the day , for the previous year he had been engaged by the Revd C. Lessingham Smith to take him from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk , climbing in Hata Corrie on the way . |
| 27 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 28 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
| 29 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 30 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |