Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 2 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 3 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 4 | Tony Underwood raced in for a 70 metre try in Leicester 's 30-14 win at London Irish . |
| 5 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 6 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 7 | It goes back for a hundred years or more . |
| 8 | I looked at Jack Mason who just shook his head , gave one of his sourer smiles , and then also holed out for a four . |
| 9 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 10 | Well think , why pay out for a hundred and forty pounds for a suit , when you gon na wear it again ? |
| 11 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 12 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 13 | Robert Meaby , whose brother Brian and the Eastbourne captain had been on the wrong end of a five and four beating in the bottom match , had with Christopher Walker already enjoyed a fair share of excitement , halving the shorter length with a birdie putt after Shrewsbury had chipped in for a two . |
| 14 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 15 | The Americans trailed by two sets to Hlasek and Rosset before hitting back for a 6-7 , 6-7 , 7-5 , 6-1 6-2 victory . |