Example sentences of "they for [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 2 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 3 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 4 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 5 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 6 | Well they 're three weeks old and she 's selling them for two hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 7 | That gives us the potential of raising two thousand pounds , because we intend to sell them for one ninety nine . |
| 8 | Yeah , buy them for one ninety nine there . |
| 9 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 10 | But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then , they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones . |
| 11 | Lot number one hundred and twelve , Lot number one hundred and twelve gentlemen , it 's the bamboo picnic baskets , there we are , there 's the picnic baskets showing in the front here for three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds , anyone want them for three hundred pounds ? |
| 12 | There 's way that I 'm gon na trust them for another five or six weeks yet . |
| 13 | There is nothing more annoying to a journalist who is working on a story than to be told that the PRO will ring back with the relevant numbers and then not to get them for another two or three days . |
| 14 | And when he 'd finished , he sticks them for another two hundred credits — danger money . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 16 | On page six of our agenda there are congress organization motions which clearly need to be discussed some time during this congress because they concern rule amendments , and if they do fall off the agenda because debate is long on the other things , I really do believe they should take priority because we wo n't be raising them for another three years . |
| 17 | Cook them for another ten minutes . |
| 18 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 19 | He 'd been with them for twenty seven years . |