Example sentences of "[num] of [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy was not a great goalscorer , but everyone who saw him play for the Palace is agreed that he helped to make hundreds of them for us . |
| 2 | Hollywood 's worst in the movie line has recruited hundreds of them for the gangs of race-course roughs , motor bandits , and smash-and-grab thieves . ’ |
| 3 | After the class they treated themselves to lunch , cold poached salmon the first day and the best cut of cold beef the next , and wine to go with it , and a raffle amongst the six of them for a bottle . |
| 4 | There was silence between the three of them for a moment as they returned each other 's stare ; then Joe said , ‘ If you do n't wish to act for me I can make other arrangements . ’ |
| 5 | He used three of them for Tessa , the legs of one pair tying her ankles to the chair legs , her hands pulled behind and tied together with the second pair . |
| 6 | ‘ No one has made it his own and that 's why the sleectors have chosen three of us for the training trip to Lanzarote . |
| 7 | Also I mean er we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then picking it , instead of actually taking the whole thing because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been an exception in this entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much , er all three of you for coming points so clearly |
| 8 | Also I mean , we take your point and we 've made it before Ken that there 's a real danger of asking for a report from someone like Professor Gower and then cherry picking it , instead of actually taking the whole , because it does actually add together in some sort of coherence erm and had Professor Gower 's report been accepted in its entirety , we may not have been had the pleasure of having you back again today , but thank you very much er all three of you for coming . |
| 9 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 10 | He was in command of the local corps of yeomanry and quickly gathered about ten of them for the defence of Carewscourt . |
| 11 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 12 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 13 | I mean there might be millions of them for all we know , but we ca n't find them using our system of maths , cos ours does not allow division by zero . |
| 14 | In 160 first-class matches — 142 of them for Northants — he claimed 226 catches and 76 stumpings , 59 of those dismissals coming in his best year , 1951 . |
| 15 | It has won 63 Pulitzer prizes , more than any other newspaper , but only one of them for local reporting . |
| 16 | Midgley booked five players — Strachan and Hodge of Leeds and Le Saux , Clarke and Wise of Chelsea — all but one of them for minor offences . |
| 17 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 18 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 19 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 20 | ‘ It has two rooms and she is willing to let your client move into one of them for a short period . |
| 21 | If the injured trio — or even one of them for that matter — miss the game , Rangers may have to rely on goalkeeper Andy Goram more than ever . |
| 22 | One frustrated delegate , the leading French politician , Paul Reynard , could assert in exasperation that ‘ the Council of Europe consists of two bodies , one of them for Europe , the other against it ’ . |
| 23 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 24 | Rayne started the bidding at a guinea and after some brisk competition among the gentlemen at the foot of the stairs it was knocked down to one of them for five guineas . |
| 25 | Quite apart from Faber business , he had to settle down and write prefaces for three books as well ( one of them for his own selection of Pounds literary essays ) . |
| 26 | I have n't seen one of them for a long time |
| 27 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 28 | Not that we 've seen one of them for miles . |
| 29 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 30 | That 's helpful for us to know because maybe even would want to take one of them for instance , that 's already been described |