Example sentences of "of [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 2 | Rayne started the bidding at a guinea and after some brisk competition among the gentlemen at the foot of the stairs it was knocked down to one of them for five guineas . |
| 3 | It requires the member to enter all registered contracts as principal and not as agent , and provides that LCH will register such contracts in accordance with its regulations and keep a record of them for six years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 6 | For one moment Isambard was caught off-guard , but he had lived in and trained and trusted that hard old body of his for sixty years , and in emergencies his very muscles thought for him . |
| 7 | I 'm going to ask each one of you for two suggestions . |
| 8 | He appeals from the order of the North Avon Magistrates ' Family Proceedings Court on 23 December 1991 when they made a secure accommodation order in respect of him for three months . |
| 9 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 10 | Oh for fuck sake I 've got to swap one of mine for one of yours now |
| 11 | ‘ But I have conquered this disease before and been free of it for two years . |
| 12 | I had sight of it for five minutes and decided to use it . ’ |
| 13 | There 's one teacher , he seems to have had a personal interest in each one of us for five years . |
| 14 | ‘ Outrageous ! ’ was the cry ; ‘ We 've always had our Medau here — Some of us for twenty years ! ’ |