Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muttering incomprehensibly , he made for some bushes where he disappeared from Emily 's view . |
| 2 | Ed Stafford , 37 , had bee married for six years when he divorced in 1982 . |
| 3 | There was for six months when I was there . |
| 4 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 5 | Suzannah Reddan had been working at a pub in north-west London for six months when she disappeared in March 1988 . |
| 6 | Kieran has now Rostrevor home to Dublin for six months where he intends , as he puts it , to ‘ lie low ’ for a while , writing songs and preparing for his and Frances 's second album . |
| 7 | He himself had been an American citizen for twenty-eight years when he replied otherwise to the adjutant 's inquiry . |
| 8 | True ivory is one of the few substances to have been highly esteemed for symbolic purposes wherever it could be obtained . |
| 9 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 10 | In 1974 he was fined £75 and banned for three matches when he refused to leave the pitch after being sent off in a Manchester United match . |
| 11 | Before the right hon. Gentleman issues a denial , will he confirm that before the previous election the Tories said that they would continue to pay child benefit as before — only to freeze it immediately for three years when they took office ? |
| 12 | I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school . |
| 13 | Sarah Louise Harris , aged 20 , was banned from the roads for three weeks when she appeared before Alton magistrates on Friday . |
| 14 | Always question any increase in price and ask for good reasons why it was not included in the original estimate . |
| 15 | Translating them into actual events , there could be few people who had anticipated that a British Airways Boeing 747 would suffer loss of power on all four engines for sixteen minutes when it flew into a volcanic ash cloud at 37 000 feet . |
| 16 | Touche Ross tax partner Maurice Parry-Wingfield spoke for many others when he called it a ‘ victory for common sense ’ and urged the Revenue to leave well alone and resist any temptation to change the law . |
| 17 | Telephone Management Systems customer care director Anne Nunn also speaks for many suppliers when she talks about the imbalance between the knowledge required of hotel staff and the time devoted to training them . |
| 18 | made what was to be the last club trip out of Britain for many years when they travelled to Dublin , and played a football match on Easter Monday . |
| 19 | Broomfield and Alexander , a seven partner firm based in south Wales , had been the club 's auditors for many years when it hit financial difficulties . |
| 20 | I bought his Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile for ten shillings when I was a Lower boy at Eton ; engrossed , I read through all five volumes . |
| 21 | Arthur Skyrne was 59 and had been on the dole for ten years when he joined Roseberry ; now he is site safety officer and one of the directors of the company . |
| 22 | You 're high all the time except for those periods when you just crash because your adrenalin has left you . ’ |
| 23 | Face-packs and facial saunas are good for city skins or for those times when you feel your skin needs a pick-me-up ( during the winter perhaps ) or to quell an eruption of spots . |
| 24 | This education enabled Thomas to attend an ordinary school for hearing children where he learnt to read and write , though not to speak . |
| 25 | Her preference is for small charities where she feels she can do some good , and where she has some natural interest . |
| 26 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 27 | He was around for five minutes when I arrived and then he vanished . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm not big on soaps , though I was in The Newcomers for five weeks when I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 29 | The 43-year-old dance king who grew up in Hartlepool , says : ‘ I was in plaster for five weeks when I injured my knee ligaments . |
| 30 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |