Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 2 | We asked him for general news . |
| 3 | ‘ To buy a player of Kevin 's experience would cost a fortune but we got him for free . |
| 4 | Yeah , they we got them for thirty so mind you |
| 5 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 6 | No , they 're not really , you got a stand by , you got it for eight fifty , and cos we 're students , instead of eight fifty , we got it for five . |
| 7 | We got it for all the tournament . |
| 8 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 9 | ‘ We designed them for this . |
| 10 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 11 | But in her case we allowed it for obvious reasons . ’ |
| 12 | But Hampshire are top of the table and we outplayed them for two days . ’ |
| 13 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
| 14 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 15 | We took it for forensic tests . ’ |
| 16 | We investigated it for one of our earlier dictionaries as it seemed quite economical on space . |
| 17 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 18 | The battledress was very good , I mean the army seemed to wore it all that time so er we had it for several years and we had to press that every day , thick material , very heavy . |
| 19 | We ran it for half a century and left behind a road network , ginger beer and a cricket green in the capital , Corfu Town . |