Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] for [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 2 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 3 | Well I was gon na ask you if you knew any girls , I mean for seven pound fifty you ca n't go wrong , you ca n't even get that in town with a hat |
| 4 | I studied for one year at the Academy in Vienna and this year finds me working on my own in my own studio and I am being analysed by Dr Wilhelm Stekel . |
| 5 | I 'm a fool if I believe for one minute that he 'll give me a fair chance … |
| 6 | Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was |
| 7 | I thought for one moment he was about to perform a Highland Fling . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought for one moment you said twenty-five a year . ’ |
| 9 | And the highest is somewhere around seven hundred and fifty I think for one deal . |
| 10 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 11 | And do you think for one minute they care a damn about you ? |
| 12 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 13 | ‘ If we 'd listened to them do you think for one minute we 'd have got this far by now ? ’ |
| 14 | FREE when you send for 112 ROCK'N'ROLL GREATS … |
| 15 | if you go for one week it 's sixty eight pounds |
| 16 | I do n't suppose you thought for one minute that anything really drastic would happen to him … ’ |
| 17 | I said , Oh yes , and if you think for one minute I 'm taking pathology forms to your room , I said , you must have had . |
| 18 | ‘ If you think for one moment I 'm going to wear another woman 's ring while you make love to me you 've got another think coming … ’ she choked . |
| 19 | Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 20 | In addition , if you subscribe for one year or more you can receive one of the books listed below — absolutely free . |
| 21 | Why ca n't you ask for two cheque books at once ? |
| 22 | For — Everything you need for two machine networking — in one package . |
| 23 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 24 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 25 | In nineteen ninety , ninety one we asked for six point four seven four million in poll tax . |
| 26 | ‘ If we thought for one moment that the health of the public was at risk we 'd stop selling eggs . ’ |
| 27 | It means broadening our agenda and questioning the decisions on which it is based , the reasons we go for one story and exclude others . |
| 28 | Erm and I think that it is a very useful exercise to discover which things you know fall below that break even point and which things are therefore if you like internally subsidized or which we do for one reason or another . |
| 29 | We stayed for one night , there , in quite a luxurious hotel , so there was n't anything extraordinary to grumble about : the worst bit was trying to deal with our luggage — trying to retrieve it from piled-up trollies on the airfield in the heat of the day , etc . |
| 30 | We were then transferred to the Gendarmerie Royale , we stayed for one year in a prison camp in Rabat , then four and a half years at the headquarters of the Gendarmerie in Rabat , our hands tied day and night from 13 July , 1975 to 19 December , 1979 . |