Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [noun] for [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HARTLEPOOL manager Alan Murray broke the club 's transfer record again yesterday when he signed striker Andy Saville from Barnsley for £60,000 . |
| 2 | SmithKline Beecham is selling its German-based UHU adhesive business to HSG-Vermogensverwaltungs GmbH of Frankfurt for £97.5million , of which £91million will be paid in cash . |
| 3 | Only last summer Sergei Aleinikov moved from Dynamo Minsk to join Alexander Zavarov at Juventus for £1.75 million . |
| 4 | In 1888 he bought Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds for £10,000 and presented it as a civic monument , and he gave £5,000 to Leeds Infirmary , as well as other sums for charitable purposes — deeds for which , in 1889 , he became the first honorary freeman of Leeds . |
| 5 | IBM Corp has now wrapped up the deal under which it hands over MAPICS to Marcam Corp in return for 1.615m new shares in its partner . |
| 6 | Motor distributor Lex Service has bought the Nissan dealership in York for £300,000 . |
| 7 | Powerful , combative and dangerous at set pieces , the rugged defender has enjoyed an excellent season after returning to White Hart Lane from Southampton for £750,000 . |
| 8 | On 6 May 1635 Potter sailed to New England , and on 13 October 1636 was hired as a soldier at the Castle Island fort in Boston for £10 a year . |
| 9 | The biggest deals have involved the purchase of its cargo container business by the US giant , Genstar , for nearly $400million and the disposal of the IoW ferries to a company formed by the Cazyer and Iliffe families in Britain for £107million . |
| 10 | At the age of fifty , in 1890 , he retired and sold his business to Charles J. Phillips of Birmingham for £25,000 . |
| 11 | Similarly , a group of eighteenth-century French decorative prints by Janinet , Bonnet and others ( the second part of the collection partly sold last summer ) struggled to find buyers in the main , although Stanley Johnson bought the charming ‘ Les Hazards heureux de l'Escarpolette ’ ( lot 243 , est. £2,500–3,500 ) by de Launay after Fragonard for £4,200 ( $6,342 ) and David Tunick outbid Andre Candillier for ‘ The Mariage [ sic ] Presents ’ by Bonnet , part printed in gold ( lot 257 , est. £1,500–2,500 ) which made £4,000 ( $6,040 ) . |
| 12 | But following the sale of Teddy Sheringham to Spurs for £2.1million Forest are now short of firepower . |
| 13 | She and her boyfriend , Mark Evans are accused of hiring Norman White from Gloucester for £30,000 , intending that he should kill Ivor Stokle and Pauline Leyshon , so that they could collect insurance money on Mr Stokle 's life . |
| 14 | Bought by Ian Dunlop of Citibank for £56,000 ( $84,000 ; est. £40,000–50,000 ) , it was underbid by Thomas Gibson and Ivor Braka . |
| 15 | Boss Colin Murphy , who took over from David Webb at the end of a turbulent season for the club , has been forced to sell Dean Austin to Spurs for £500,000 and Peter Butler to West Ham for £275,000 . |
| 16 | At Great Yarmouth fishing by drifters for herring has ended since the shoals of these fish are scarce now . |
| 17 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 18 | Last month it lifted the pharmaceuticals component of its turnover above 60 p.c. with the purchase of Peter Hand from Hillsdown for £7½m . |
| 19 | He affected a lavish lifestyle , purchasing Papworth Hall in Cambridgeshire for £70,000 in 1895 , and later adding several adjacent estates costing £210,000 . |
| 20 | The sale of a magnificent Roman marble Doryphoros to the Minneapolis Institute of Art for $2 million and another precious artefact to a Japanese collector for an undisclosed sum enabled the museum to open its doors this year , albeit several years behind schedule . |
| 21 | Bowe originally hoped to fight George Foreman in China for £20 million but as well as Bruno , Larry Holmes is also on his list of potential opponents . |
| 22 | Michelin , a tyre firm , bought Uniroyal Goodrich in America for $1.5 billion and is now staggering under the debts and a fall-off in its business . |
| 23 | Amplifications were carried out using Vent polymerase and reactions were subjected to 15 PCR cycles at 94°C for 1min , 60°C for 1min and 72°C for 1min . |
| 24 | Christian Malford and Sutton Benger on form for roach plus occasional chub . |
| 25 | Jean-Francois Baroni , a newcomer to the Salon specialising in Italian drawings , failed to sell the rare portrait of Countess Skavronsky by Vigee le Brun which he bought at Sotheby 's New York in January for $4,500 . |
| 26 | Newcastle have signed 37-year-old John Burridge from Southampton for £25,000 as cover . |
| 27 | The other two villas were completed in 1845 by James Andrews of Tring for £ 1,045 . |