Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 And she asked me for the fifty P .
2 They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home .
3 They were trying plug them for a hundred and fifty thousand were n't they ?
4 We shall need it for the forty foots .
5 He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 .
6 He pounced on the Scottish selectors for not picking him for the 4 × 100 metres relay team for Edinburgh and , so it said in one of the tabloids , he was now ready to meet Linford Christie .
7 Well I 've seen 'em for a hundred now actually , a hundred quid .
8 fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go .
9 I 'll do it for a hundred and thirty quid no more !
10 I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds .
11 My recommendation is that we scrap them for the ten year decade of evangelism as a trial period and then think again in AD 2000 !
12 He then holed it for a three .
13 But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off .
14 when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or
15 And yeah , they 've gone and re-credited me for the fifteen pound !
16 After his triumph , Benn said : ‘ I do n't want to fight Eubank because I do n't like him but I 'll take it for the million he was asking for . ’
17 ‘ No , tell him he can have it for a hundred !
18 • You can have it for a 14 day HOME TRIAL
19 The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand .
20 Goldwyn threatened to sue him for a million dollars , but Mayer convinced him that such a court case would cast a dim light on the entire industry .
21 But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him .
22 So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay .
23 The desire to modernise the UKCC and the national boards , and to condition them for the 1990s is uncontentious and is supported by the Opposition , by the professional organisations and by the health unions .
24 But I 'll pay you for the two lots of coffee .
25 Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated .
26 Anyone know who marked him for the 3–3 draw at Leeds ?
27 Bryan Bland is a ‘ well-known bird watcher ’ ; we ( the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Leicester Group ) had borrowed him for the two days of a winter weekend .
28 Your objectives should be every time somebody says no , thank you for the fifty pound .
29 The Bishop of Gloucester , who 's been accused of indecent assault , has issued a public thank you for the hundreds of letters he 's received .
30 She poured the coffee black , and left it for the three of them to add milk and sugar .
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