Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff and right leg propelled me for forty yards until the leg gave way and the injured one , without a thought , took the strain and I ended up on my hands and knees ranting and raving . |
| 2 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 3 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 4 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 5 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 6 | Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you |
| 7 | My dad probably got them for fifty each , if he said a hundred . |
| 8 | About thirty nine quid they charged me for three . |
| 9 | ‘ They acted as judge and jury and suspended me for ten weeks without a trial . |
| 10 | He did not like this and changed them for two of the same length . |
| 11 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 12 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 13 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 18 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 20 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 21 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 22 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 23 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 24 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 25 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 26 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
| 27 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
| 28 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 29 | And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another . |
| 30 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |