Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there a secret reason that made them hanker for a new life in a new world ? |
| 2 | You got me A for me day . |
| 3 | I have a couple of mates who are Forest fans , and I got them tickets for the first game of the season . |
| 4 | Tony 's mother sounds English to me and promised me tickets for next years FA Cup final . |
| 5 | It cost me £300 for insurance and shipping my MX-5 to Amsterdam on a roll-on ferry out of Brunswick , Georgia . |
| 6 | Then they charged her £25 for a letter telling her what they had done . |
| 7 | When one of the clocks failed Aerospatiale charged him £1,200 for a replacement ! |
| 8 | Found him shelter for the night . |
| 9 | She told him word for word , adding coldly , ‘ Is that how you describe us to anyone who comments on our practice ? ’ |
| 10 | The early interest in church architecture and brasses afforded him destinations for the bicycle . |
| 11 | bakery assistant , received her £500 for the work she does with the West Oxfordshire branch of Volunteer Reading Help . |
| 12 | I 'm not being greedy but if someone paid me £50,000 for a fight , I 'd be the happiest man in the world . |
| 13 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 14 | But she had no idea that the ‘ customer ’ who paid her £400 for five sachets of cocaine was Daily Mirror reporter Jill Turner — and that the transaction was being recorded on video . |
| 15 | The High Court action reached its climax on 11 January when BA issued a public apology to Virgin and paid it £610,000 for damage caused by libel . |
| 16 | It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place . |
| 17 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 18 | Magistrates fined him £50 for each tyre offence and £25 for leaving the car in a dangerous position . |
| 19 | She called him Jack for short . |
| 20 | A coin dealer later offered me £100.00 for my find , which he described as ‘ a common type in a little better than F-grade . ’ |
| 21 | When he came downstairs he offered me £90 for a small china ornament . |
| 22 | Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 . |
| 23 | Baptiste kept him company for a while as he blazed away , but when the ninth wicket fell with the score on 166 and fourteen overs still unused , it seemed that his effort would be in vain . |
| 24 | Walsh kept him company for 45 minutes for 27 runs , Patterson for an hour for a partnership of 62 until the second new ball was required to finish off the number eleven . |
| 25 | The 22-year-old 's eighth professional outing brought her £8,250 for her one-shot win ahead of Laura Davies and Gillian Stewart . |
| 26 | ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’ |
| 27 | He had paid it no attention , for the light still reached it only by reflected glimpses ; but Isambard had lived with it on close terms for fifteen years , and knew it line for line and feature for feature . |
| 28 | He gave me £50 for my wages . |
| 29 | But he gave me money for my boat , and for Xury , too . |
| 30 | Their sparring for position of least-favoured son gave me pause for thought . |