Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Neighbours complained that 90-year-old Gladys Mills was making too much noise at her flat in Weymouth , Dorset , where she has lived for 12 years . |
2 | Although she can now refit a car by herself , she wo n't qualify fully until she has worked for two years and passed her City and Guilds ‘ hand on ’ course . |
3 | MORAG MACDONALD Company secretary at the Post Office , where she has worked for 22 years . |
4 | Jo emphasised the need for good movement and footwork on the court and acknowledged the work of her fitness advisor , Len Heppel , with whom she has worked for three years . |
5 | Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel . |
6 | Whether Evert has , in fact , bowed out from the sport she has graced for two decades remains to been seen . |
7 | PRINCESS Diana has returned the controversial £72,000 Mercedes sports car she has driven for 10 months . |
8 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
9 | She 'd lain for two days on the cellar floor . |
10 | As she was seeing things in the wake of her Paris win , she plans to compete for three or four more years before having a second child and giving up the tournament scene . |
11 | As she prepared to leave for one of her foraging expeditions , Sycorax would poke up at her and hiss , ‘ Do n't let them see what you pick ! |
12 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
13 | The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably . |
14 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
15 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
16 | Another told me she had suffered for three years with a terrible pain in her back but since following the diet the pain had completely disappeared . |
17 | She had survived for four years without him ; she did n't need him any more . |
18 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
19 | She had walked for four days , and lost one of her younger children on the way . |
20 | It was her own cottage and it was all she had to show for 20 years of marriage so , she reasoned , she might as well make it look as good as possible . |
21 | Twelve days before her death Mrs Gilfoyle had started maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plug factory , where she had worked for 17 years . |
22 | A 45 year old woman with a strong family history of ischaemic heart disease was referred with left sided chest pain , which she had had for six years . |
23 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
24 | She had to pay for eight pillows . |
25 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
26 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
27 | Two years ago Rosemary was made redundant from a job she had held for 20 years . |
28 | Sarah pushed and thrust to get rid of the burden she had carried for nine long months , and she screamed until Maggie forced gin down her throat to quieten her . |
29 | Oh yeah I know she 's played for four times |
30 | She 's paid for five hours a week , three on a Monday , one on Wednesday and one on Friday , that 's what she 's supposed to do . |