Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Musicians knock 'em for six |
| 2 | So if he sells it thirty , just , he wo n't even cover his overheads on that but it means instead of having it delivered you go down to Joe 's shop get it for thirty P save yourself five P . |
| 3 | You and Matthew have it for each other so bad you probably could n't add two and two together . ’ |
| 4 | It put me in mind of the man I met there , and Ill tell you for free , you 're nothing like him . |
| 5 | Lot number twenty twenty is a quantity of stands there we are , we 've got a sample showing for you just a sample showing fifty for the lot the whole lot there for fifty pounds at fifty pounds want them for fifty pounds thank you sir , fifty pounds I 've got , at fifty five going on fifty five , sixty pounds , sixty five coming in sir ? |
| 6 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 7 | By all means prosecute them for that . |
| 8 | Drugs are expensive in primary care , not normally because of the unit cost , but because many patients take them for many years . |
| 9 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 10 | It 's always difficult to come to a conclusion about portable computers because people buy them for different reasons . |
| 11 | And God bless him for that . |
| 12 | Two reasons strike me for this . |
| 13 | Most TFTA members hang theirs for 10 days , while Derek allows two to three weeks . |
| 14 | Do you mean to tell me that the girls ask you for such stuff as you have been reading ? |
| 15 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 16 | 1979 , 1982 ) , not only do stags that hold large harems hold them for longer within particular breeding seasons than those which hold smaller harems ( Fig. 23. 1a ) , but individuals that are consistently successful in securing large harems throughout their lives tend to live longer than their less successful competitors ( Fig. 23.1b ) . |
| 17 | The CF 1 is for those who prefer a closed face reel — personally I only use one on canals when squatt fishing , but I know a lot of good anglers prefer them for all float fishing . |
| 18 | What plans have you for future expeditions ? |
| 19 | Spiders use it for all kinds of purposes — making egg-sacs , lining nests , weaving tents for their babies and as safety lines when they jump . |