Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 2 | Depending how quick they actually okay them erm I mean for two years , three years now they they 've just gone straight through with no queries at all . |
| 3 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 4 | Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat |
| 5 | One as I say for seventy crackers . |
| 6 | But like I say for seven years he just sat and did n't want to do nothing . |
| 7 | I wait for fifteen minutes . |
| 8 | I think I read for two hours , but it seemed like ten minutes . |
| 9 | I have now returned to live in London where I teach for two days a week at the Royal Academy Schools ’ . |
| 10 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 11 | ‘ I ask for two reasons . |
| 12 | And the highest is somewhere around seven hundred and fifty I think for one deal . |
| 13 | Sir we 've only had this for I think for three minutes before the start of the erm of of this erm session , I 'm just wondering if we could have ten minutes to read it ? |
| 14 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 15 | Scott Cairns , promoted from within to fill the role vacated by Mr Milne , aims to lift Scottish investment from 63 p.c. to 70 p.c. , and increase the retail content at the expense of offices , which account for 55 p.c . |
| 16 | And the figures would have been higher still , but for a smaller rise in car offences which account for three quarters of all reported crimes . |
| 17 | In addition Gary Nesbitt , who was the non-executive deputy chairman , and Michael Isaacs , who was the development director , have agreed to a non-competition agreement , which last for two years in Mr Nesbitt 's case and 18 months in Mr Isaacs ' . |
| 18 | The council 's homeless hostels which cater for 25 families are full . |
| 19 | 14 of Ralph 's trucks are trapped in jams which stretch for 100 miles or more ; victims of a blockade by French lorry drivers . |
| 20 | The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive , headed by a President elected for four years , the legislative branch , Congress , which comprises the Senate ( with 100 members who sit for six years , one-third being elected every two years ) and the House of Representatives ( with 435 members elected every two years ) , and the judicial branch , headed by the Supreme Court . |
| 21 | In a large saucepan , pour the beer that you warm for 5 minutes . |
| 22 | FREE when you send for 112 ROCK'N'ROLL GREATS … |
| 23 | You send for fifty tickets . |
| 24 | you know you stop for twenty minutes , put twenty minutes , and you , you just press return and it throws a map up , a map of part of England |
| 25 | If you stop for three months , I 'll give you £100 ’ — a lot of money in those days , 1948 — £1,000 now ? £2,500 ? — anyway . |
| 26 | Now normally , fixed returns we do use , you know like guaranteed income bonds , guaranteed er returns , but unfortunately , if you look at the Halifax list , or the er any building society list , their fixed-rate returns are very dodgy and they 're round about sort of er six and a half to seven percent at the most erm if you tie for three to four years , and they go up to about seven and a half , maybe a little bit more if you tie for five years . |
| 27 | and you can go on it anywhere as far as you like for forty pence . |
| 28 | Since general public speaking courses are not preparing you to give a particular speech , but to give speeches in general , the first task is simply to get you to stand up in a room full of people and ask you to speak about anything you like for three minutes . |
| 29 | whether we needed to go back for anything to go in the fridge or freezer If I got this page sort of full by the end of the week , people there were picking out their , they were getting tea bags and coffee and biscuits , you know for two pages full , I 've got one page full and of course with that I could get erm , packet of the Ferrera Roche |
| 30 | hundred and odd , there , but you know for two packets |