Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Gina was pleasant to him she could share ; if not , he would make them last for two meals . |
| 2 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 3 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 4 | Keegan responded : ‘ It sounds like he wants me to stay for 10 years . |
| 5 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 6 | After all that and the investment of nearly £30 billion in real terms , this nation has nothing to show for 12 years of this Conservative Government . |
| 7 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 8 | An auto-minute button is handy — just press it to cook for one minute on high ( 100 per cent ) . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Let them heat for five minutes . |
| 11 | Put in the monkfish slices and let them poach for 3–4 minutes , until cooked through . |
| 12 | One good idea is to analyse a few stories by your favourite authors before you begin , not to begin , not to copy their style , but to find out how much plot you need for 5000 words or less . |
| 13 | Then let it rest for twenty to thirty minutes . |
| 14 | Bring it to the boil and let it simmer for 5 minutes . |
| 15 | I had a visitors ' visa , renewed annually but I simply forgot and let it go for two months . |
| 16 | Rub the fish on both sides with the salt and let it stand for 20 minutes . |
| 17 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 18 | They are going to have to say : ‘ Look fellas , we do n't want you to work for three months . |
| 19 | Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 20 | Brando would keep everyone waiting for twenty minutes . |
| 21 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 22 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 23 | Oh it 's give you breakfast for fourteen days . |
| 24 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 25 | Right , so it 's twenty gallons per minute times , let's say you 've got it going for ten minutes , ten mins and the per minutes and the minutes cancel out and the answer comes in gallons then . |
| 26 | Eldorado 's death knell has been heralded since the week it started on July 6 , although BBC bosses had said they would keep it going for five years despite the torrent of criticism . |
| 27 | ‘ I bet they do n't keep themselves waiting for six weeks for it then , ’ Sharon snapped back . |
| 28 | The tutorial bodies will have to gear themselves to cater for two sets of examinations at different times . |
| 29 | you know you stop for twenty minutes , put twenty minutes , and you , you just press return and it throws a map up , a map of part of England |
| 30 | But if you hear him speak for five minutes you think no more of them . |