Example sentences of "for [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have I mean I 'm having er a weekend in Lytham so I might er take stuff up with me , you know for for the odd |
| 2 | Yeah well we we thought we would erm erm try and get the Asian community involved and we included some sequences with Asian clothes with Asian music an tha that was all very impressing for for the white people as well as the Asian people in the audience . |
| 3 | For for the chilly days . |
| 4 | Erm but erm come the time had come for for the fair let's say the the the Spring fair . |
| 5 | And end up the same circumstances we was now , er with out the stuff that we 'd we were paying for for the next six months of the year . |
| 6 | You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie . |
| 7 | Er can I check again whether you have a collection now which you have bought stamps for or items for during the past twelve months ? |
| 8 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 9 | Mean arterial pressure was the most important variable to adjust for between the two groups . |
| 10 | Each has its attributes but for all round performance Kodak technical Pan film 2415 is recommended , with subsequent development in Kodak HC1100 developer for about the suggested time at the manufacturer 's dilution D. |
| 11 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 12 | Harrington 's fortunes rose steeply for about the first 150 generations . |
| 13 | What we normally do is get together with the rhythm section for about the first week or so — and it 's just heaven because you 're just a small band . |
| 14 | Choose a factor 8–10 for about the first five days , but be guided by sun intensity and location . |
| 15 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 16 | If , if you look at their work , for about the first hundred years after all of them , their work was widely , er , disparaged and rejected . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 18 | for about the fifth time |
| 19 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 20 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 21 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 22 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 23 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 24 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 25 | a decision in detail as to where it should be in the short term ( one year ahead ) and a longer-term plan for about the next three to four years : |
| 26 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 27 | Erm he 's in Scotland for about the next month , but I 've asked him to do the recordings in the next week . |
| 28 | He will , however , be away for about the next six weeks . |
| 29 | Arthur Rackham 's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens in the limited signed edition could be bought in 1960 for around £40-£50 and the Peter Pan Portfolio for about the same amount . |
| 30 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |