Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Er like when you go out and catch mackerel you use it for fresh bait then .
2 But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’
3 And we commence this morning with Lot number one Lot number one is showing to my right here , the ivory carving at fifty pounds at fifty pounds at fifty pounds you want it for fifty pounds , thank you sir , fifty I 've got now , fifty pounds is offered at fifty five at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy , seventy five eighty five ninety ninety pounds in the back row at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , any further bids at ninety pounds at ninety pounds .
4 I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said .
5 About thirty nine quid they charged me for three .
6 Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon .
7 He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press .
8 Years later , she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination .
9 When a central bank buys a surplus of foreign currency it exchanges it for domestic currency , here Deutschmarks .
10 In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’
11 The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date .
12 And you visit them for there was one time we visit them for fourteen day daily but I do n't think they do it now .
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