Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's probably why she got through so many women . |
| 2 | He lives , still , in the same Chelsea fiat with its pink and white striped wallpaper , geranium-filled window-boxes , elegant chintzy furniture , and the myriad of expressive original paintings which Joyce and he shared for so many years . |
| 3 | In the ‘ bit plane ’ method , Fig. 4 is , in effect , duplicated for as many bits as are needed for each pixel . |
| 4 | The Ostrogothic era ; Ravenna was taken by Theodoric in 493 and he ruled for over 30 years . |
| 5 | In her forty-four year life , Mary ruled for only six , so that we are faced with another thirty-eight years when she had virtually no role in her kingdom , being a minor and absentee ruler for the first nineteen , and a deposed queen for the second . |
| 6 | She recorded everything that passed in the room , but she cared for only one person . |
| 7 | SIR — As a convicted British tribalist , Scottish branch , may I urge the new Government of Great Britain not to make the same mistake as the British tribalists , English branch , who failed for so long to find a use for County Hall in London after Livingstone et al. |
| 8 | The Company 's Pest Control service covering Norfolk and Suffolk has moved from Norwich where it operated for over 30 years . |
| 9 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |
| 10 | Cheryl gazed for only half a minute . |
| 11 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 12 | A powerful figure in Ragusa was the Benedictine friar Mavro Vetranović , who was born in 1482 and who lived for over eighty years . |
| 13 | She lived for just seven weeks , but during her short life her two sisters , Clare , five and Victoria three bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 14 | His house was sacked during the revolt , and he himself was discharged from office ; although he lived for almost twenty years more , he was not reappointed . |
| 15 | She lived for only seven weeks during which time her two sisters , Clare , five , and Victoria , three , bought her a small teddy bear . |
| 16 | As clouds of the invaders reached Texas , a U N fact-finding commission reported that the Odonata ( it now became their official name ) lived for only seven months in their adult winged phase . |
| 17 | Suppose that instead of paying Lockheed , Boeing and General Dynamics $65 billion to build 648 of the new fighters , and thus partly freezing the technology for 20 years , the Pentagon asked for just 72 operational aircraft , plus spares and trainers , and then kept the production line ticking over . |
| 18 | But then I asked for just one spell of six months as a locum in some exotic place . |
| 19 | One distributor asked for more direct satire to be used and suggested catchlines like ‘ She was not as red as she painted herself . ’ |
| 20 | The judge asked for more psychiatric reports on Borgois before passing sentence . |
| 21 | And she loved his body , the astringent unsweaty cleverness of it , that gave with delight and asked for so little back . |
| 22 | The king was astonished that he asked for so little , and readily agreed . |
| 23 | A marriage occasionally broke up because the wife asked for too much . |
| 24 | It 's not erm well where was the hot wax ? we just had an ordinary wash go and ask her , say you asked for how much did you pay ? |
| 25 | Sandison called over to Franco but asked for only one glass of the special liqueur . |
| 26 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 27 | Four or five eggs are laid and incubated for about four weeks . |
| 28 | The Indians , who they fought for nearly two years , must also complete their pullout . |
| 29 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 30 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |