Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wandered around for fifteen minutes examining the piping , whistling quietly to himself , stopping occasionally to put his ear to a joint , and then pulled a hammer out of his tool-bag and tapped smartly on one particular valve . |
| 2 | He came on for one match at least . |
| 3 | For all his undoubted talent Grayson may not have been a budding Ian Rush but he turned out for one of the country 's most famous clubs , perhaps not the best but certainly one of the best known — Accrington Stanley . |
| 4 | Cos he signed up for five , five years did n't he ? |
| 5 | He signed up for three years with an option |
| 6 | I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago . |
| 7 | And there was a coupon in , he sent off for fifteen pound off . |
| 8 | But he went out for three days , never for an hour and a quarter . |
| 9 | He put in for five . |
| 10 | He did n't for one minute expect that sort of treatment in Gloucester , but that was how he would spend this afternoon . |
| 11 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 12 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 13 | So , he waited in for two days nothing ! |
| 14 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 15 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 16 | He remained there for six years until the new governor of Bombay , Sir George Clerk [ q.v. ] , |
| 17 | George immediately became a fixture in the Palace side and , but for an occasional injury , he remained there for seven seasons . |
| 18 | He stayed there for two years until his urge to move on took him to Hong Kong , and then , in 1894 , on a journey on foot and by horse from Shanghai to Rangoon . |
| 19 | In the event he stayed there for six years , immersing himself in the special atmosphere of rural Ireland which he found greatly sympathetic . |
| 20 | Or he stood in for one or other of the teachers , notably Miss Gilberd when she wanted to ‘ pop home ’ , or Mr McWhirter when he failed altogether to arrive . |
| 21 | He pumped steadily for five minutes , crossed to the starboard hull , pumped for a further ten minutes , then back to the port hull for a final five . |