Example sentences of "[v-ing] for twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 2 | It would be no good putting together menu and arranging to do two thousand covers if you 've got spacing for twenty persons , would it ? |
| 3 | That 's no problem , so you 're looking for ten thousand pounds worth of life cover for yourself and then you 're looking for twenty eight to thirty thousand for your daughter projected forward |
| 4 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 5 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 6 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 7 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 8 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 9 | Twenty pounds for it at twenty pounds at twenty pounds thank you , twenty is offered and selling for twenty pounds only , twenty five for you sir , thank you , twenty five , thirty thirty five thirty five to my left and selling for thirty five pounds yours sir , thank you , thirty five pounds for number eight four five , thank you very much . |
| 10 | Brando would keep everyone waiting for twenty minutes . |
| 11 | About this time a detailed correspondence , lasting for twenty years , started between Sloane and Ray . |
| 12 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 13 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
| 14 | Then , with the air of a man asking for twenty cigarettes , he said , ‘ I need 10 or 15 grams of thallium . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll never let you in , not if you go on crying for twenty years ! ’ |
| 16 | And we 've got this hundred watt thing running for twenty seconds , so oh say for oh fifty be sixty , for a minute , sixty seconds . |
| 17 | In a characteristic show of intellectual bravado , de Gaulle now said that he had seen independence coming for twenty years or more . |
| 18 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 19 | Lot forty two Lot forty two is the er large selection of auction catalogues and we 've got a sample showing , there we are works of art for you twenty pounds for them at twenty pounds anyone want them for twenty pounds sample showing for twenty pounds , anyone want them for twenty , thank you sir , twenty pounds I 've got in the centre and I shall sell at twenty if there 's no further bid at twenty pounds , any more ? |
| 20 | There 's the lamps showing Lot number one O eight there we are showing for twenty pounds at twenty pounds for the lamps at twenty pounds anyone anyone want them ? |
| 21 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 22 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 23 | but were they really hoping for twenty four people ? |
| 24 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 25 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |