Example sentences of "to [pers pn] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a limitation period has just been missed , one useful argument is the fact that it is possible to issue proceedings one day before limitation expires and then to hang on to them for four months before they are served . |
| 2 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 3 | A few receive the justice that has been denied to them for five centuries , but most are still viewed by their governments as third-class citizens , subversive activists and threats to ‘ national security ’ . |
| 4 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 5 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 6 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 7 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 8 | But she sells them to me for fifty pence a packet still . |
| 9 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 10 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 11 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 12 | Now you suspected she 'd been lying to you for thirteen years . |
| 13 | Give it to you for fifty P . |
| 14 | I suggest that the figures you 've got before you are not terribly , terribly useful , and that you do invite domiciliary health to come back to you for three months to talk to you about their work in terms of the visits , the visits that they do . |
| 15 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 16 | Lord Lawson , as he now is , gives many ‘ through the keyhole ’ insights into the woman who lived next door to him for six years , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |
| 18 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 19 | I said ‘ I have been married to him for 15 years . ’ |
| 20 | which in a way were pleased we have n't got to make the heart rending decision of him having his legs off , cos Denny told us , mum kept saying to him for three days , he would arch his back ooh , ooh , could n't move , and mum said yes he |
| 21 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't even bother speaking to him for 24 hours before a match , ’ was the advice of a Danish team-mate . |
| 23 | She realised that not having spoken to him for ten days had given her a perspective she had not previously had — a perspective on herself as well as him . |
| 24 | In December 1936 Lance Henly , the Club 's forbearing Secretary for 15 years , resigned through ill-health , and the Brewery settled the £149 debt owing to him for 20 months unpaid expenses . |
| 25 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 26 | After a while , though , I started receiving letters from her , and on Sunday evenings my Pop would take me to the phone booth , where at a prearranged time I would ring a phone booth in Scotland and talk to her for 3 minutes . |
| 27 | The Hungerfords of Farleigh Hungerford , the all-powerful local family in medieval times , bought Iford , which was then a mill , in 1369 and held on to it for four centuries . |
| 28 | ‘ Just remember that your contract commits you to us for two years , ’ he said coolly . |