Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 2 | Aircraft have transponder systems which locate the aircraft exactly so that everyone for several miles around knows where the aircraft is . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've got all my money and I 've had no dinner meself for three days , ’ I said . |
| 4 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 5 | He heard nothing for four months . |
| 6 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 7 | Nothing for Irish eyes to about |
| 8 | In a psychoanalytic study of the Amazons Bernice Schultz Engle points out that according to tradition they ‘ cared nothing for womanly arts , spent ten months of the year farming , pasturing cattle , and especially in training horses . |
| 9 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 10 | And we 've done nothing for two years . ’ |
| 11 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 12 | Two good pieces of gear had encouraged me to make the move , but once started there was nothing for 15 feet . |
| 13 | Nature cares nothing for human definitions , after all , as Sprague de Camp points out . |
| 14 | And by now it was all or nothing for both teams … |
| 15 | Some people feel that the herd instinct does nothing for American tourists , and I feel the same about American athletes . |
| 16 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
| 17 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |
| 18 | Inhabitants of Pripyat , the town nearest to the reactor , were told nothing for 36 hours , and not tested for signs of radiation sickness until much later . |
| 19 | ‘ I can do nothing for these engines here , in this storm ! |
| 20 | But he said nothing for 24 hours and later , in a panic , sent police in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | Nothing for ten months . |
| 22 | They will give me next to nothing for valuable objects . |
| 23 | It is nothing for 50 trucks of Canadian pea-fed bacon to arrive in one day , or as many as 2,000 barrels of apples . |
| 24 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 25 | Fine , can you bear with me for five seconds while I 'll just make a phone call ? |
| 26 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 27 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 28 | Other jobs and dignities , including the leadership of the House , the chairmanship of the party , the conduct of Central African affairs , the oversight of European negotiations , the first Secretaryship of State , and even the Deputy Premiership , were to be added unto me for varying periods in the years that followed ; and each time Macmillan went abroad-notably during his Eastern tour in 1958 and his African trip in 1960-I was automatically invited to act as head of the government . |
| 29 | I 've been wanting you to kiss me for absolute ages . ’ |
| 30 | They would be with me for four days in July . |