Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 2 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 3 | I pulled the door shut and almost ran to the front door and into Langdon Crescent garden , where I stood for five minutes breathing in the fresh air . |
| 4 | However , after being in the ‘ Rena ’ for a week , I became seriously ill with septicaemia and was moved to St. Peter 's Hospital , where I stayed for three weeks . |
| 5 | Her parents then moved to London and admitted her as a free scholar to the sculpture studio in the Royal College of Art , where she stayed for four years and graduated an A.R.C.A. |
| 6 | After time off to have children , she became a secretary at Kendall Primary School , Colchester , where she stayed for five years before moving at Myland . |
| 7 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 8 | We were not far below the hanging glacier bivouac , where we stopped for two hours before pushing on to make the most of the night . |
| 9 | In 1851 George Sumner was appointed rector of Old Alresford , Hampshire , where they lived for thirty-four years , and where their son , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) [ q.v. ] , artist and archaeologist , was born . |
| 10 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 11 | The man claims he was then taken to a boat on the Norfolk Broads , where he lived for two weeks , and then spent a week holed-up in a room at an unknown holiday camp . |
| 12 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 13 | The Veterinary Products Committee , where he served for four years , gives advice on food and animal drug issues to the Minister of Agriculture . |
| 14 | ( Van , 1896 ) On his return to England my father was appointed to the Consular Service and posted to Taranto in southern Italy , where he served for two years . |
| 15 | His connection with tramways was first established with the Blackburn and Over Darwen steam tramway , where he served for three years . |
| 16 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 17 | In 1907 Scott returned to I Tatti where he remained for two years , acting as secretary-librarian to Berenson , by whose intensely aesthetic approach to the study of art he was powerfully influenced . |
| 18 | After training , Glen , accompanied by his wife , went as a missionary to Astrakhan , in southern Russia , where he remained for five years . |
| 19 | Born at Cardross , Dumbartonshire , he lost his hearing in infancy through illness and was admitted at the age of 8 into the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where he remained for seven years . |
| 20 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 21 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 22 | How big are the sheets that you get for ten quid ? |
| 23 | In a large saucepan , pour the beer that you warm for 5 minutes . |
| 24 | By the time you 've bought them some cigarettes and given them some money for the pub and said well if there er and the car has n't got any petrol so you pay for ten pounds worth of petrol . |
| 25 | A parallel-group study with 24 children given half the dose of evening primrose oil that we used for 4 weeks , demonstrated a significant difference between active and placebo groups , a finding that we can not explain . |
| 26 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 27 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |
| 28 | The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’ |
| 29 | Under Resolution No.6 to be put forward at the AGM the directors propose that the authority should be extended so that it applies for five years from the date of this year 's AGM . |
| 30 | He got him to hospital and the doctors said that he lived for 70 minutes , but he was dead by the time we got there . |