Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jay did n't want to go home for three , what , four hours to mope over Lucy , alone ? |
| 2 | ‘ I told Glentoran manager Rob Strain that I intend to train hard for three weeks and maybe play a couple of reserve games . |
| 3 | Radio 4 's excellent Margaret Howard , who presents Pick of The Week ( and has done so for 17 years ) is in the same boat . |
| 4 | Brian Tustian , who has farmed organically for five years is looking forward to the opportunity of dealing with his customers personally : it gives him a chance to put the case for organic produce himself , and he can cope better with the variable quantity of his supplies at a market . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer . |
| 6 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 7 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’ |
| 9 | This strategy has worked well for two years , reducing delays suffered by our passengers . |
| 10 | ‘ Monday : Producer rings to check OK for one critic to come night before Opening Night . |
| 11 | But I want to get there for nine . |
| 12 | He has lived here for eight months and knows more about the town than the Neftis , who are infuriatingly vague when it comes to giving directions . |
| 13 | Many in the farming industry say the current system has survived well for seventy years and they see little reason for changing it . |
| 14 | THERE is more than one fire that has burned constantly for 200 years . |
| 15 | Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns . |
| 16 | The Dean gazed affectionately at her : a tall , handsome woman whose company he 'd enjoyed immensely for thirty-five years . |
| 17 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |
| 18 | As soon as we 'd packed all the stuff in the ba van we 'd have the rest of the sandwiches the rest of the coffee or another cup of coffee and then we 'd get on the road and even if we 'd got back for four , by the time we 'd got home and , and had something to eat or if we did n't want nothing to eat , watched the telly for half an hour and get to bed , you 've got from eleven till sort of three or four the next day which is just nice because you 're in your own home |
| 19 | Cannon , 39 , had intended to play on for one more season , but he has a back injury that may require surgery . |
| 20 | Got to put down for one thing is it ? |
| 21 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 22 | And it and we had to collect twenty cans and then when you 've collected twenty cans that is enough for one trees one tree and it is gon na be planted in Sherwood Forest and it 's going to stay there for hundreds and hundreds of years . |
| 23 | I do n't like sitting here for two hours . |
| 24 | What a Rottweiler is not is a dog you can keep shut up for twenty-three hours a day . |
| 25 | Making and editing getting on for fifty films would take time , but Karajan was well ahead of the game . |
| 26 | Dealers have been alerted to look out for 250 items snatched from an exclusive house in London 's Belgravia . |
| 27 | I mean if Glasgow breaks down for I mean if the pros get called out for two weeks it 's not gon na make a big deal of difference at Norwich . |
| 28 | Gooch , having exceeded the mighty Hammond 's Test aggregate , edged into his stumps ; Hick messed up an attempted pull against Waqar ; Smith was held brilliantly by the substitute fielder at third slip ( Latif also happens to be the deputy wicketkeeper ) ; and on the stroke of tea Stewart , having batted imperiously for four hours , fell disappointingly to a catch at cover off slow left-armer Mujtaba . |
| 29 | Cos they were playing Newtons Thursday night and she said they 'll have to write home for nine men so Newtons int gon na stand a chance . |
| 30 | the desolate home of Miss Havisham for which CD 's original was the picturesque old Elizabethan mansion in Rochester known as Restoration House in honour of the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 , the king having lodged there for one night en route for London . |