Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
| 2 | Can I thank you for those generous comments that you say towards er , , I think they 're totally true , he 's worked extremely hard in making sure this council has a budget which balanced , and it 's due to his expertise and bullying tactics that we 've succeeded , and he should be fully congratulated for that , and I think it 's the determination of those who were elected in May as well , to make sure that we protected services and jobs , and , and make sure that we actually carried out the mandate which the electors elected us to do that we have such ach achieved what we have achieved today . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to coax two into it because they are not very experienced cook , but I chose them for that very reason , ’ he says . |
| 4 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 5 | I need something for that other tub now , I 'm thinking of lobelia around the edge . |
| 6 | ‘ I mourned it for two whole days when it died . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ O Mary , mother of sorrows who knows so well a mother 's anguish , intercede I pray you for this sorrowing mother and her innocent son … ’ |
| 8 | So , for instance , the Crowther Report of 1959 on the education of 15-18-year-olds talked about the likelihood that middle-class girls would combine a career with motherhood and marriage and the necessity for them to receive an education which prepared them for this future dual role . |
| 9 | ‘ And you hate me for all that , of course , ’ Luke accepted neutrally . |
| 10 | No , they 're not really , you got a stand by , you got it for eight fifty , and cos we 're students , instead of eight fifty , we got it for five . |
| 11 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
| 12 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 13 | She blamed him for all this . |
| 14 | You get it for three hundred and fifty , it 's a hundred and fifty odd pounds saved in n it ? |
| 15 | Years later , she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination . |
| 16 | he sort of smiled and said oh okay I 'll let you have it for thirty five and I said done . |
| 17 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 18 | Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch . |
| 19 | And show him subtraction by counting off , erm you buy something for thirty seven P , and he gives fifty pence . |
| 20 | When Caro made her escape after tea it was with all the usual feelings of guilt and frustration ; with her mother suggesting brightly , ‘ Just let me measure you for that new jumper before you go , Carolyn , ’ and , ‘ Did I show you the new suite we were thinking of getting , in the catalogue ? |
| 21 | Lord our God , we thank you for these beautiful words from the Masai people . |
| 22 | Her parents were still concerned about her and she had asked them to accompany her for this first appointment . |
| 23 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 24 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 25 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 26 | Yeah , they buy gas at eighteen P and they sell it for forty three P . |
| 27 | They blamed themselves for this unfortunate marriage . |
| 28 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 29 | he 's let her have it for six hundred pound , because |
| 30 | One day I came home from training and Mum asked , ‘ How much do they pay you for all this running ? ’ |