Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for [num] [noun] " 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 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 3 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat |
| 10 | Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years . |
| 11 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 12 | Well I wan I tried for two days to talk about Lady Thatcher . |
| 13 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 14 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel . |
| 17 | ‘ I studied for five years at the Physical Education Academy , so I could go back to Poland and be a school teacher . |
| 18 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 19 | I had I saved for three years . |
| 20 | I wait for fifteen minutes . |
| 21 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 22 | I think I read for two hours , but it seemed like ten minutes . |
| 23 | I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it . |
| 24 | And erm then after erm I had done my training as nun , I did teacher training , and I taught for twenty years , before becoming a social worker . |
| 25 | Featherstone is another area that once relied on coal and it is also where I taught for 12 years as deputy head of a comprehensive school which I established . |
| 26 | I taught for 29 years at a boy 's school and I was very aware of young people who are now serving prison sentences for crimes relating to the troubles . |
| 27 | I have now returned to live in London where I teach for two days a week at the Royal Academy Schools ’ . |
| 28 | I served for two years , 18 months of which where in Egypt , during the so called Middle East Crisis , where it was not unusual to be sniped at , almost daily , by an unseen enemy who did n't always miss . |
| 29 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 30 | After coming here I worked for four months in a sweet factory in Stratford . |