Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] they for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
2 | ‘ I joined them for selfish reasons , ’ he admits . |
3 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
4 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
5 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
6 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
7 | She got in the bed to watch Neighbours and we came back about five o'clock and I went up the stairs , the T V was and he was erm out for count , so I left them for another hour and I said to mum |
8 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
9 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
10 | You get them for two pounds fifty . |
11 | And both have been designed to enable you to hold them for long periods of time . |
12 | Now she gets them and she sells them for ten quid . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
15 | Well the people who make them sell them for forty P er twenty P rather . |
16 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
17 | Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops . |
18 | If soft enough to show footprints and vehicle tracks , they retain them for many years . |
19 | So he sold them for four X. |
20 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
21 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
22 | he bought them for three quid ? |
23 | And there were those men who encouraged us to reprimand them for sexist thoughts and deeds . |