Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN 82-year-old man who drove off to visit friends got lost for 13 hours — and finished up just 22 miles from home . |
| 2 | But it soon seemed natural for one man to be held first among equals ; or the first prominent convert in a city , like Stephanas at Corinth ( 1 Cor. 16 : 15–16 ) , might form a community round his household . |
| 3 | And they paid extra for one Mr Simonds to coach in football and hockey . |
| 4 | They then lived rough for four days before they were arrested in Pontefract , West Yorks , it was alleged . |
| 5 | On coming down Eyre taught English for two years at Queen Elizabeth 's Grammar School , Blackburn , where Russel Harty was one of his pupils . |
| 6 | This makes it easier to accept such later stories as that of Symeon of Durham , who says that he walked barefoot for five miles before reaching the church of St Cuthbert . |
| 7 | At the end of 1989 results became available for 10000 homes throughout the UK , and these are shown in Table 1 . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most emotive case of the Supreme Court 's term involves a young Missouri woman kept alive for six years in what doctors call a ‘ persistent vegetative state ’ . |
| 9 | One particular owl that sticks in my mind was one I kept alive for six weeks , in the early days . |
| 10 | but Pete if he , I mean I do n't see why he does n't if he went private for two years he 'd make enough to retire , in two years , no sweat , he wo n't have to work again , I mean I bet his house is paid for |
| 11 | She lay derelict for 10 years before she was restored for the Museum in 1988 . |
| 12 | Llangoed Hall , a most romantic house built in 1912 by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis , in a wonderful setting beside the River Wye in Powys , lay empty for fifteen years but has recently opened as a first-class country house hotel . |
| 13 | Laura 's anger would usually come in an icy blast on the telex for all to see , invariably concerned with a project she had decided she no longer approved of , ‘ It was like a burning spear going through you , you felt sick for three days . |
| 14 | I was sick all night and felt terrible for two days , so terrible that my mother called in Dr Sambataro . |
| 15 | The details of diplomatic manoeuvring — what messages other Arabs took from Washington to Baghdad , what the Russians did , how the American chargé d'affaires in Baghdad kept busy for five months — remain unknown . |
| 16 | But fate intervened and the young Countess of Donnington was thrown from her horse and , badly cut and bruised , lay concussed for two days and nights . |
| 17 | That split between cultures is the focus of this uncritical biography by Dore Ashton , an art historian who knew Noguchi for thirty years . |
| 18 | It took a long time to bring the fire under control , the local pubs kept open for three days and nights . |
| 19 | Her eyes grew wide for one moment , she drew one last deep breath . |
| 20 | Marconi died in Rome 20 July 1937 ; the next day , radio transmitters all over the world fell silent for two minutes . |
| 21 | It continued unabated for two days , and the gallant switchboard operators were near exhaustion . |
| 22 | Ratt fumble and squeak through ‘ Wanted Man ’ , which sounded cool for five minutes in 1984 . |
| 23 | Ratt fumble and squeak through ‘ Wanted Man ’ , which sounded cool for five minutes in 1984 . |
| 24 | She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy . |
| 25 | The Hill of Dreams , one of the period 's most remarkable and decadent novels , was completed in 1897 but remained unpublished for ten years . |
| 26 | Emma 's flat stood empty for six months before anyone else moved in . |
| 27 | Following a period of use for warehousing , the mill stood empty for two years , until it was taken over by Mike Cavanagh in 1976 . |
| 28 | The building stood empty for fifteen years . |
| 29 | The building stood empty for 25 years , and was nearly torn down . |
| 30 | The nuclei on the slides were stained with 1 µg/ml of 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride ( DAPI ) ( Sigma , USA ) in 0.2 M TRIS chloride buffered saline for one hour at room temperature in the dark . |