Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warriors still hunt the jaguar in ritualised fashion ; they must stalk it for three days and it may only be killed with a wooden spear . |
| 2 | Green wood advise this should last you for three days forging , so phone them on 071 249 5848 . |
| 3 | Yeah , we 'll do it for three months |
| 4 | In some lessons you might use it for five minutes . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll set mine for five-to . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | On days when wing inspection would come around and check our tech supplier for spare parts , we would load this trailer with all the illegal spare parts we were n't supposed to have , cos they , like the couple of it might call it for three starters and we had six , seven or eight . |
| 8 | Okay I 'll I 'll sell it for sixty . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you 'll owe me for six months ' work . ’ |
| 10 | No , he 'll get it for fifty . |
| 11 | I 'll put ours for six . |
| 12 | But I think I heard on the television like somebody goes I 'll see you in court , I 'll sue you for millions so like , it 's terrible , but I mean , they , Desmond Lyneham was int was erm tt talking to so to someone from Ladbrokes , |
| 13 | You could buy it for fifty ! |
| 14 | He 'd do it for ten quid , let alone for this little lot . ’ |
| 15 | So you , you said you could do it for five p a copy ? |
| 16 | ‘ I could do it for thirteen . |
| 17 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 18 | Today , he could sell it for 300,000 riels , he said . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , well you just said I could have it for thirty . |
| 20 | I said er or he said we could have it for twenty pound a month and we said |
| 21 | And er he 'd maybe say yes and he 'd get it for fifteen you know . |
| 22 | Originally cost twenty pounds and we could get it for ten it 's er |
| 23 | We used to get them for one penny the pack in the navy . |
| 24 | He may shadow them for two weeks , gradually getting closer and closer . |
| 25 | A man who would touch you for ten francs , and go home and paint what would one day be worth ten million . |
| 26 | Lucie forced a penny into his soft , sleeping palm ; dumped his shearing tools in his lap , and pulled his cap down over his face in the hope that nobody would recognize him for one of the players . |
| 27 | To look at her now ye would take her for fifty-two . |
| 28 | Mardon , who began a week 's trial at Anfield on Monday , suffered an ankle ligament injury during training which will sideline him for two weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ From now on , ’ the guard informed him , ‘ you will be confined to this room and no one will enter it for forty-eight hours . |
| 30 | Look , I 've found a hostel that will take you for one night . |