Example sentences of "[pron] for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
| 3 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 4 | He heard nothing for four months . |
| 5 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 6 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 7 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 8 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 9 | Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet . |
| 10 | Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later . |
| 11 | But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | Nothing for ten months . |
| 13 | It is nothing for 50 trucks of Canadian pea-fed bacon to arrive in one day , or as many as 2,000 barrels of apples . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 16 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 17 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 18 | They would be with me for four days in July . |
| 19 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 20 | Here is a man who antagonised me and bothered me for 16 months and when I said ‘ yes ’ to fighting him again , he said ‘ no ’ . |
| 21 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 22 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 23 | The swine owes me for two weeks . |
| 24 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 25 | Pearse coached me for two years . |
| 26 | The family could quite well manage without me for two days . |
| 27 | The Italian , who was with me for two months , became really rather tiresome and disruptive , especially to the charming young German working hard for her exams . |
| 28 | For example I had my bottom wiped for me for six weeks . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Then you 'll owe me for six months ' work . ’ |