Example sentences of "for [det] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset .
2 and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less
3 But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome .
4 Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know .
5 For another two seconds she studies me .
6 For another two weeks you can .
7 " I 'm sure if I ask Muslim brother for another ten days it will be all right , " the Shah replied stiffly .
8 ‘ It 's a good price and — ’ he winked slyly at Erika — ‘ and for another twenty marks they 'll wear gipsy dress . ’
9 For some great conductors it was — Karajan , like everyone else , had a good line in Knappertsbusch stories — but Karajan 's repertory and reputation have not been built on that premiss .
10 For some other companies it is uneconomic to open for just a few days between bank holidays .
11 It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing .
12 For some eight years he opened the innings for Hampshire with the great Barry Richards , a daunting prospect for many a young bowler hoping to establish himself — and many an older one who already had .
13 For some 11 years they had acted for landowners and in the 1980s reportedly for the Medellín drug cartel , in the prosperous northern Magdalena Medio region of the Magdalena river valley , to combat left-wing guerrillas and attack and kill trade unionists who tried to organize campesinos ( peasants ) and workers in the area .
14 For some older workers it would make a lot of sense , because together with our ordinary voluntary redundancy payment it is an attractive package . ’
15 ‘ Younger men find it easier to learn the language of self-expression and emotion but for some older men it is a jump that is simply not possible .
16 Younger men find it easier to learn the language of self-expression and emotion but for some older men it is a jump that is simply not possible
17 For some 25 years it has been recognised that the overall settlement system is antiquated in comparison with that of other major financial centres and that , if The Exchange is to maintain and enhance its position as one of the World 's major international exchanges , further and more radical reforms are needed .
18 For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state .
19 For some engaged couples it is difficult to imagine ever having a conflict , while others have already experienced quite a few .
20 For these proud owners you could say it 's just a case of puppy love .
21 For these two reasons it is hardly any wonder that Tolkien balked , and that the Unfinished Tales in particular show a mind searching in different directions .
22 For these considerable services he received nothing , his enemies using the time he was away to poison Francesco I Sforza against him , not least because they were jealous of the work on the chapel .
23 For these superlative players it is a position of great privilege , but also intense pressure .
24 For all practical purposes we can designate such relations in the earliest productive modes as wholly symmetrical .
25 Against this claim must be set the fact that many of the early ecologists were not , in any significant sense , evolutionists ; for all practical purposes they were still dealing with an essentially static world view .
26 Indeed for all practical purposes he owned us .
27 Jennings ( 1961 ) wrote that ‘ Research has produced such a variegated list of traits presumed to describe leadership , that for all practical purposes it describes nothing .
28 For all practical purposes it is necessary to run simulations on a computer , on account of the number of times it is essential to rerun the model under different conditions .
29 And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties .
30 But , for all practical purposes you can say that a wind angle of 60° produces maximum drift .
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