Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | You 're no use either , and you taught her for three years at Cambridge . |
| 4 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 5 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 6 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 7 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 8 | At eighteen he 'd married a beautiful young girl of seventeen , who died when he was twenty-five , and he mourned her for ten years . |
| 9 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
| 10 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |