Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty pound fifty it cost me for six months ! |
| 2 | Police followed him for six miles on the A1 near Dishforth at speeds of up to 96mph through heavy rain . |
| 3 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |
| 4 | I got it for six months , te |
| 5 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 6 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 7 | In a period of ten months in 1764 – 5 the Exeter Mercury reported the case of a man , wife , son and daughter-in-law jointly indicted for the murder of a girl apprentice by " beating and barbarously using her " ; the ill-treatment of a thirteen-year-old girl by a master and mistress who branded her on her buttocks , chained her for six hours to an apple tree and then beat her severely before making her work ; and a third case , which shows up the vulnerability to sexual abuse of children bound out by the parish , in which a man was sentenced for castrating two eight-year-old boys . |
| 8 | The peregrine chased it for six miles , and even then the pigeon did not give in . |