Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their defence solicitor said Merlin had been well looked after for five years . |
| 2 | We do n't need to for two weeks . |
| 3 | I recently read an assessment report which stated , ‘ Her mother seems to have disappeared and has n't been heard of for six months . |
| 4 | This is a question that the board has struggled with for two years . |
| 5 | Even if disaster strikes , as it seemed to for one student of mine who dropped her nearly completed head on the concrete floor and an ear snapped off , do n't let it worry you unduly . |
| 6 | These last bear looking at for one thing only , and that is the rich , exquisite Basque family names carved on them : Iharour-Lascagne , Uharretuko Elissalde-Olaizola . |
| 7 | And you 've got , you 've got copper we can use for for five Ps have n't we ? |
| 8 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |
| 9 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 10 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 11 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 12 | Agnes first screwed up her face , then she stretched it before she muttered , ‘ That cousin Mary in Durham , the one you have n't spoken to for twelve years , if not longer , or , as I should say , who has n't spoken to you since she married Mr Boston , a man of supposed wealth and position , and got too big for her boots , as you 've often stated ? |
| 13 | The third member of the team is production supervisor , who previously worked at for 34 years . |
| 14 | As he said : ‘ If I 'm deciding on whom I want to live with for fifty years — well , that 's the last decision I want my head to be ruled by my heart . ’ |
| 15 | He said : ‘ If I 'm deciding whom I want to live with for 50 years — well , that 's the last decision in which I would want my head to be entirely ruled by my heart ’ . |
| 16 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 17 | The the festival I th went on I think for for three summers . |
| 18 | All I had to think about for 5 months had been which was the best brand of nappies or how many poos Danielle had done that day . |
| 19 | This guy , [ whom ] I had worked with for seven years , is really very bright . |
| 20 | Successful applicants will be admitted to for one year and membership may be renewed annually on payment of further subscriptions . |
| 21 | ‘ I then put him in touch with the chairman whom he spoke to for 10 minutes at two o'clock . |
| 22 | I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge . |
| 23 | And she thought for a moment of little Mrs Richards , and the regrets she had lived with for fifty years . |
| 24 | I was still at the time in a relationship with a man I had lived with for four years and was emotionally dependent on , in more ways than one given my immigrant status in this country . |
| 25 | Vanderford was the stripper he had lived with for three years in San Francisco , starting in 1980 , when he got out of jail . |
| 26 | There were units that all fitted together like a continuous counter rather than the cupboards and tables of different sizes that Emily had lived with for twenty-five years . |
| 27 | And we were working for for fourteen pound at that time . |
| 28 | He will receive the pension he 's paid into for 49 years . |
| 29 | We 're gon na for seven hours Lisa . |