Example sentences of "[verb] it for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 2 | You could buy it for fifty ! |
| 3 | I would n't buy it for four hundred . |
| 4 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 5 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 6 | It is worth fifty dollars a night , and you guys probably want it for thirty , right ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At fifty pounds , twenty , twenty pounds twenty pounds twenty pounds , no one want it for twenty pounds is bid , thank you , on my right , any advance on twenty ? |
| 9 | At twenty pounds twenty at twenty pounds no one want it for twenty ? |
| 10 | No one want it for twenty pounds is bid , thank you , twenty two pounds twenty five twenty five , any more at twenty five ? twenty five ? |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 12 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 13 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 14 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 15 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 16 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 17 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 18 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 19 | Would you watch it for three hours ? |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 21 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
| 22 | You have to be very patient , you wan na try and look at a situation where they might wan na do it for five , ten , 15 , 20 years . |
| 23 | So you , you said you could do it for five p a copy ? |
| 24 | Well you see we 're a bit further from home now and if we can do it for five days , great , we have n't |
| 25 | ‘ I could do it for thirteen . |
| 26 | I 'm only gon na do it for two days . |
| 27 | I can do it for one minute twenty seconds . |
| 28 | Er it 's a fifty percent uptake but it co and he says , Do n't you can ch you can just do it for six months of the Year . |
| 29 | , well the job 's worth more than ninety quid , I said , I do n't do it for ninety quid ! |
| 30 | And er so he comes round and he says er why wo n't you do it for ninety quid ? |