Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police in Foxboro , Massachusetts made eight arrests for drunken and disorderly behaviour after last week 's England-US game . |
| 2 | He got fifty pounds for writing that in as well . |
| 3 | And if you volunteered for five years I know you got fifty pound for that which was a hell of a lot of money , a year 's wage in some peoples ' eyes that was you know . |
| 4 | The floods , combined with heavy snow , produced 300 calls for help to the police . |
| 5 | Terry Agombar , 28 , of Bexley Heath , Kent , and Mark Cummings , 29 , of east London , both got 14 years , and Gary Hutchins , 28 , of east London , got 12 years for conspiracy to rob . |
| 6 | We got 30 bob for it as scrap . |
| 7 | Hezbollah announced 12 candidates for the first two rounds , eight of them in Baalbek , three elsewhere in the Bekaa , and one in Beirut . |
| 8 | I was growing , but I 'm now , I never got much higher than about five foot one and I weighed eight stone for a many years . |
| 9 | It was during 1844 that the mine built 10 cottages for worker 's , above the village , on Cat Bank . |
| 10 | Three years ago the first ever races here drew 12,000 fans for the flashing lights , thunderous music , fireworks , balloons — and , yes , the ski racing . |
| 11 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
| 12 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 13 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 14 | In 1978 local authorities built 64,500 houses for tenants throughout the country . |
| 15 | Gino 's chipper in Duke Street , near where she normally boarded her tram after work , charged one penny for a bag of crispy batter , and if you were lucky , there might be a nice piece of fish , or a stray lump of white pudding hiding among the golden , greasy flakes . |
| 16 | The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ( BCATP ) trained 58,000 pilots for all manner of aircraft during World War Two at schools in Rhodesia , Canada , South Africa and the USA . |
| 17 | Preparation work stopped one day for a tea party . |
| 18 | ( 1842–75 ) , painter who provided one illustration for the Cheap Edition of The Uncommercial Traveller ( 1865 ) , and four woodcut illustrations for the Library Edition of the same book , in one of which , ‘ Leaving the Morgue ’ , he portrays CD . |
| 19 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 20 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 21 | As they travelled along he used one pair for reading , one pair for looking out the window and the other for glancing around the carriage . |
| 22 | I then used one hook for each ship , and tied all the ropes together at one end . |
| 23 | Elliott Seales beat 15,000 others for the honour of seeing his New |
| 24 | The other day he swam twenty laps for all-over muscle tone . |
| 25 | In order to assist in the urgent necessity for home-grown food , the Company provided 14,000 allotments for vegetable growing alongside the line , and issued a small guide giving instructions for planting , etc . |
| 26 | As a result HMIs published English from 5 to 16 ( 1984 ) , which proposed four aims for English teachers . |
| 27 | No mean combatant , Mr Holdsworth dismissed two solicitors for not pursuing his case with sufficient vigour . |
| 28 | It will be his first Five Nations contest though in his debut international the graduate of the University of Ulster dismissed two Fijians for dangerous tackles against England . |
| 29 | The panel of four scientists listed 14 options for dealing with the forests , ranging from doing nothing to protecting almost everything , and costed each option in terms of lost jobs and lost income . |
| 30 | They used two methods for this . |