Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 2 | Detailed studies of particular artefacts direct attention to the varying complexity involved in manufacturing items , many of them designed for specific functions . |
| 3 | Everyone looks for different types of friends at different ages . |
| 4 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 5 | If you have any recipes that work particularly well , please let me know for future editions of this book . |
| 6 | ‘ There is nothing to stop them applying for other nights , but there is no guarantee that they will get them . |
| 7 | I asked for 15 rehearsals for the Benvenuto Cellini in Geneva ( in February ) and both the orchestra manager and the intendant at the house thought I was crazy . |
| 8 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 9 | I asked for some children to work with me . |
| 10 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
| 11 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 12 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 13 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 14 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 15 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 16 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 17 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 18 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 19 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 20 | I long for Anglican churches to be more confident in their expression of the Good News . |
| 21 | Well I wan I tried for two days to talk about Lady Thatcher . |
| 22 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 23 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 24 | Cos I punished for stupid things . |
| 25 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 26 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 27 | I played for high stakes — and I have lost . |
| 28 | ‘ I studied for five years at the Physical Education Academy , so I could go back to Poland and be a school teacher . |
| 29 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 30 | I believe that I speak for many others , both in my party and outside it , who want to see a successful conclusion at Maastricht and who want political and economic union in Europe to go forward . |