Example sentences of "[vb past] them for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 2 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
| 3 | Mr Singleton sold them for two pounds each . |
| 4 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 5 | She says that they were desperate for food , and the pike fed them for two days . |
| 6 | Deputy Judge Harold Hewitt jailed them for eight years each . |
| 7 | He watched them for two minutes , but they did not move . |
| 8 | Similarly , Charlie 's incarnation as a Norse explorer among the Skroelings , ending when a man who seems to be Erik the Red took his crew and ‘ steered them for three days among floating ice , each floe crowded with strange beasts that ‘ tried to sail with us , ’ said Charlie , ‘ and we beat them back with the handles of the oars ’ surely relates to the long sea voyage , an account of which originally formed the bulk of the ‘ Death by Water ’ section . |
| 9 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 10 | They were about to land at Bristol when he spotted car thieves and buzzed them for 10 miles until they ditched their motor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yeah/ Which is highly improbable but he bought them for three pounds |
| 13 | he bought them for three quid ? |
| 14 | When he only bought them for three X ? |
| 15 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |
| 16 | Police arrested them after the tragedy and held them for two days on suspicion of unlawful killing . |