Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another .
3 Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount .
4 ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second .
5 ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment .
6 Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day .
7 I can do it for one minute twenty seconds .
8 For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon .
9 Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year .
10 ‘ But I would like to thank you for one thing — ’
11 Do n't believe them for one minute
12 His land adjoins theirs for one thing , and more importantly , it 's the only way he can expand in this area to include substantial buildings . ’
13 I do n't believe it for one minute , personally , but this is the , this is the theory , and I 'll explain why I do n't believe it , later .
14 Scrap it for one day .
15 to last me for one month , because we 've got to put it on .
16 And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another .
17 He is constantly haunted by the fear that the US might abandon him for one reason or another and has been particularly uneasy over the new US administration 's attitude towards him . "
18 Look , I 've found a hostel that will take you for one night .
19 I do n't blame him for one minute .
20 I wore it for one year and that
21 They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since .
22 We used to get them for one penny the pack in the navy .
23 ‘ We 'll only require you for one hour a day .
24 People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night .
25 I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to .
26 They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’
27 Excuse me for one minute . ’
28 We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something .
29 Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ .
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