Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 2 | Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims endorsed the Christian monarchy whose laws promised both security for ecclesiastical wealth and firm support for the church as an institution with its own hierarchical structure , as well as investing Charles 's kingship with new forms of legitimacy , Hincmar , as he wrote proudly to the pope , regularly supplied the military aid he owed to the king . |
| 3 | I picked up her pay packet once and she got just £45 for three nights ’ work . |
| 4 | At this point it becomes impossible to determine in what exact sequence events happen but essentially computer memory dropped below $1,000 for a megabyte which allowed a complete page of A4 paper to be created in memory at 300 dots per inch . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Griffin et al found in 10% of their patients that oxygen saturation dropped below 90% for longer than a minute even when supplementary oxygen was used and only modest doses of sedative had been given . |
| 6 | Oesophageal acidity and motility were monitored under ambulatory conditions for 24 hours on the fourth day of treatment , after a wash out period of 10 days during which patients received only antacids for relief of symptoms . |
| 7 | There seemed hardly time for anyone to wander off , but wander she had , and she had come to swinging happily on a swing in the park playground . |
| 8 | Its Property Trust arm received nearly £1m for from Belfast-based developer and investor Ewart . |
| 9 | Rita , a prevention for blindness co-ordinator at the London RNIB , received here cheque for £1000 at a reception in her honour . |
| 10 | Many local farmers received over 77p for their quality bacon pigs . |
| 11 | The partners received over £1,200 for the work . |
| 12 | Sheffield Wednesday boss Trevor Francis is hoping for the same kind of bargain with Tishkov as Ferguson discovered when he paid just £650,000 for Kanchelskis . |
| 13 | Wayne 's grandparents , Ken and Pat Peckham , paid just £1,700 for Champ whose marathon exploits quickly made him the people 's champion . |
| 14 | NatWest paid around £355,000 for the freehold to Pearl Assurance , and for its money it has a building with a ground floor of 1,952 sq ft plus first floor offices of 1,749 sq ft . |
| 15 | ‘ We paid almost £9,000 for the car but we will be lucky to get £4,000 for it , ’ said Mr Lewis who believes the teenager should at least have been made to do community work . |
| 16 | The teams pledged over £5,000 for WWF in sponsor money and collections , so it was a fun day , as well as a worthwhile one , for conservation . |
| 17 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
| 18 | Kenneth Bruce then handed over £125 for the furniture , jewellery and other household items even though she did not want to sell them . |
| 19 | Rosine Greenfield handed over £395 for the black Austin A35 at Lincoln . |
| 20 | Due to generous sponsorship from local members and local people in Bishop 's Castle and Clun , we raised approximately £300 for the Preservation Funds . |
| 21 | This delightful evening raised approximately £60,000 for the two charities . |
| 22 | The ball raised approximately £40,000 for the Time Walker Education Endowment Fund , which will provide education for future generations so that they understand the vital importance of conservation . |
| 23 | Michael Palin , top selling Christmas author with Pole to Pole ( BBC Books — see Christmas in the Bookshops , page 27 ) , played to a full house and raised nearly £3,000 for the Playhouse in Oxford when he gave a talk about his travels , organised by Blackwells in December . |
| 24 | The competition raised nearly £4,000 for the RAF Benevolent Fund . |
| 25 | Emma , 21 , who works at Courtaulds Chemicals in Buckhaven , Scotland , raised nearly £300 for cancer research with the sponsored parachute jump . |
| 26 | When [ in 1990 ] the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center and its director were indicted in the Mapplethorpe case and needed money for their defence , we raised about $50,000 for them in about two days . |
| 27 | Last week 's 70s Night was a roaring success with over 100 guests who raised about £280 for the village play group . |
| 28 | A three-day sit-in at the Star Ferry terminal raised almost £10,000 for Peking . |
| 29 | Sales of books and chimp T-shirts afterwards raised almost £1,000 for the Institute and it 's hoped to start a Northern Ireland branch . |
| 30 | A furniture auction by Elm Ridge Methodist Church raised almost £3,000 for the hospice last weekend . |