Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 2 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 3 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ? |
| 5 | And that 's that 's it that 's the pattern for all of them for all those four reactions . |
| 6 | But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then , they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones . |
| 7 | The meeting came within days of separate proposals by each of them for sweeping new reductions in nuclear weapons . |
| 8 | Capital-goods imports , many of them for huge petrochemical projects , rose 14% in 1990 . |
| 9 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |
| 11 | Lot number one hundred and twenty nine , an okimono there 's another one for you for four hundred pounds and fifty , at four hundred and fifty pounds at four hundred and fifty , five hundred , five fifty going on , sir ? |
| 12 | Lot number two Lot two is a Japanese ivory carving we 've got that showing for you for seventy five pounds at seventy five pounds , eighty , eighty five , ninety offered I 'm offered ninety pounds and I 'm selling it for ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty a hundred and thirty for you sir , coming in at one thirty in the back row , one thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 13 | he said well I think that 's the best you can do father , he said we 've had enough hassle for you for all these years ! |
| 14 | The ground itself is not as harsh as the words I felt beneath me for that one curious moment at the Treasury . |
| 15 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 16 | No , I just was gon na go out and commiserate with you all for putting up with me for that long , well with you lot I do n't know |
| 17 | It was not my instinct to go , but the group — including my wife who was with me for those two days — set the example and I grudgingly , guardedly accompanied them . |
| 18 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 19 | Because the Kurecolor KC-400 Brush Pen range is easily portable — all 60 pens fit into a compact work station with a rest that doubles as a carrying handle — I took it with me for some outdoor sketching . |
| 20 | He 'd been with them for twenty seven years . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 22 | At the time of writing it seems that digital tape recorders sold to the public will have various anti-piracy measures built into them for this very reason . |
| 23 | Got ta put up with you for another four days . |
| 24 | ‘ You stayed with her for all that time . |
| 25 | You made a date with her for half seven the following evening and she was thrilled . |
| 26 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 27 | I arranged with Dick that w Bill would be with him for two two and a half hours . |
| 28 | Our best wishes go to John and his family and we look forward to working with him for another 15 year . |
| 29 | And as Jake nodded , Shiona reluctantly resigned herself to being trapped at the table with him for another little while . |
| 30 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |