Example sentences of "[verb] they [adv] for the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years .
2 They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago .
3 Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here .
4 The figure stopped dead and saw them obviously for the first time .
5 Jinny remembered Bella 's words and understood them properly for the first time .
6 I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't
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