Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |
| 2 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 3 | Like tea — we have the same brand each week — but if I know it 's cheaper in one shop I go into that shop , just to get that one thing — like I got it for 1 //6; this week and it 's usually 1 //11; — I like to get the best , but cheaper . |
| 4 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
| 5 | I got it for six months , te |
| 6 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 7 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 8 | I know with mine it was a pound and , I renewed mine for two years , well three years I think I never drove , I just wanted to have a provisional , but now , I think like if someone said it was fifteen or seventeen |
| 9 | I walked them for three or four hours a day , but nothing tired them or won their love . |
| 10 | Er I get it for three quid , three something like . |
| 11 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 12 | I locked myself for two days and nights in my room without food or water or sleep . |
| 13 | I loved you for thirteen days of my life , and did n't the rest of my life count for anything ? ’ |
| 14 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 16 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 17 | Ca n't I leave you for five minutes ? |
| 18 | Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face . |
| 19 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 20 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |
| 21 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 22 | ‘ I do it for two reasons , ’ affirms Superia . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 25 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 26 | I mean , I did it for four months and then I could n't do any more , I just think I mean , I know Amanda and Claire were a lot younger then and I think it 's difficult when they are they 're younger . |
| 27 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 28 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
| 29 | I did it for one and he did n't get in ! |
| 30 | Like , I did it for three nights and I was wrecked ! ’ |