Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Reichmann asked me to delay everything for two months and I agreed . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 4 | I expected you to pay me for such attentions , my dear . |
| 5 | And there were those men who encouraged us to reprimand them for sexist thoughts and deeds . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you left me for other women . ’ |
| 7 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 8 | He liked her to phone him for two reasons — it kept his phone bills down and if Gina answered it proved that he was fancied . |
| 9 | And wha what did they pay you for this then ? |
| 10 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 11 | How much did they charge you for that down the pub ? |
| 12 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |
| 13 | And she said she baked everything for that men . |