Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 2 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 3 | As I did n't want to undergo the inconvenience of surgery to remove the offending gall bladder , I opted for virtually fat free eating , with the miraculous side effect of acquiring slim hips and thighs for the first time in my adult life ( see photograph on next page ) . |
| 4 | I signed for yet another year 's work , Social Psychology . |
| 5 | And by the time I finished that job , I worked for about two month and I were four hundred pound in rent arrears . |
| 6 | As we moved along I could n't help feeling apprehensive as I looked for newly disturbed ground that could contain a box mine , or glancing at the trees and hedges for signs of booby-traps . |
| 7 | This equipment I kept for about three years , although I never forgot the quality of the original sounds I 'd heard , so I decided to invest in what I thought was some serious equipment . |
| 8 | I sat for about three quarters of an hour before I could continue the journey . |
| 9 | She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person . |
| 10 | She lived for just seven weeks , but during her short life her two sisters , Clare , five and Victoria three bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 11 | She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 12 | It 's not erm well where was the hot wax ? we just had an ordinary wash go and ask her , say you asked for how much did you pay ? |
| 13 | The room , reached this time from the veranda , was just as lovely as she had remembered , and after folding some clothes neatly in drawers and hanging the rest on satin-padded hangers in the wardrobe she fussed for quite some time with the scanty collection of knick-knacks she had brought , trying to arrange them so that they harmonised with the tranquil simplicity of the décor . |
| 14 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 15 | Her fingers were sliding over the satiny warmth of her skin , and in a sweet intimate flash of reminder , or of warning , her body ( her secret breathing body which she ignored for nearly all of her time , trying to forget it ) came to life and spoke to her . |
| 16 | ‘ Why do n't you , ’ she said in the ultra-kind voice she reserved for very recalcitrant children , ‘ get out , put some branches or stones or something under the wheels , then start pushing ? |
| 17 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 18 | You 've Milvia 's left you and awful time cos she talked for so long , you 've got two and a half minutes . |
| 19 | You dozed for about three quarters of an hour . |
| 20 | Folly put the phone down and sat on the bed , looking round the poky little hotel room that was all she could afford while she searched for more permanent accommodation . |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 22 | Not until her mid-thirties did she find her taste change , and even then by chance , as good manners constrained her to eat what she had for so many years quite strenuously resisted . |
| 23 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 24 | ‘ You slept for about half an hour , ’ he told her . |
| 25 | She sat for maybe ten minutes staring gloomily out at the rain , which gave no sign of abating , knowing her options were limited to a choice of one . |
| 26 | We argued for much greater prominence to be given to the potential of genuine pupil-pupil collaboration , and less to low-level writing , reading and drawing tasks . |
| 27 | MIPCOM takes place over five days — — though not being exhibitors with all the setting-up and taking-down of displays ( video-screens , logos , stylish furniture , programme brochures , all de rigueur ) — we opted for just three days . |
| 28 | Working on a tight budget , we opted for more on-board memory at the expense of a large capacity harddisk . |
| 29 | We looked for too little back-up , naively taking on too much , like driving the women to and from the centre . |
| 30 | Our orders were to keep a low profile while keeping watch on the yacht which we did for about twenty four hours . |