Example sentences of "[pron] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The signalbox at Kirton Lindsey was the subject of an unexplained occurrence that was to baffle everyone for ever . |
| 2 | He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour . |
| 3 | My mate goes five times a week and she ai n't had nothing for over twelve months . |
| 4 | Unlike lead , which the fuel companies eventually proved only too pleased to take out of petrol , sulphur does nothing for either the performance or longevity of diesel engines and it contributes to acid rain . |
| 5 | It 's , I , I mean these , these , the work with , with the original action network seems to , seems to come and go , you 've got a very large amount at one point and then nothing for sometime , it just depends er , I think which country they 're targeting and how much there is , because we had quite a lot on Malawi did n't we during the early part on last year not much on South Africa recently , as if they do n't quite know what to do , you know with the situation there it 's not quite er clarified . |
| 6 | He said nothing for almost the whole of the twenty minutes , until he got up and carried his plate and cup to the sink and then said , as he left the room , ‘ I see . |
| 7 | Why , even when complaints are made , are they often inadequately dealt with , why is there no compensation and why do people sometimes hear nothing for far too long ? |
| 8 | Natasha sighed audibly and said nothing for so long Charlotte thought she had walked away from the telephone . |
| 9 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 10 | I regarded it with distaste , decided that the rain would have washed it reasonably clean , then dragged it clear of the bog myrtle and looked around me for somewhere to dump it out of sight . |
| 11 | I was n't driving for an hour , you were n't following me for either an hour or forty miles . |
| 12 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 13 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 14 | I permit the incidents of the past to haunt me for just seven days of each year . |
| 15 | But do n't admire me for just being able to speak and stand still . |
| 16 | But Toby was n't God , except to me for just that second , and he 'd been hurt . |
| 17 | Now let me for just a few minutes , look forward if that 's not too presumptuous for a chair who is moving out . |
| 18 | Have you finished with me for tonight ? ’ |
| 19 | He 's been secretly watching me for nearly two years . |
| 20 | By the way , did you make the order out for me for tomorrow ? ’ |
| 21 | Mr. Kasner 's explanation in his evidence to me for thus acting and accepting the proposal was the following : |
| 22 | Terry Rourke sold me for enough dollars to buy himself and his true girlfriend a small business . ’ |
| 23 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 24 | Yes I think my socks garnished with holly and ivy will last me for quite some time ! ! |
| 25 | I think the first minute and a half will stay with me for quite a while . |
| 26 | But it gave me satisfaction and comforted me for much that was otherwise missing from my life . |
| 27 | I did n't go to my father 's funeral and Mum did n't speak to me for about a year . |
| 28 | She studied me for about half a minute , then rearranged some of the knick-knacks on her stall . |
| 29 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 30 | And he stayed with me for about half an hour looking after me . |