Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the people who make them sell them for forty P er twenty P rather . |
| 2 | Her parents were still concerned about her and she had asked them to accompany her for this first appointment . |
| 3 | Bartering enables them to swap it for other things they need without paying . |
| 4 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 5 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 6 | Yeah , they buy gas at eighteen P and they sell it for forty three P . |
| 7 | Guess what , they made one for Super Nintendo . |
| 8 | They asked me for more money . |
| 9 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 10 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 11 | About thirty nine quid they charged me for three . |
| 12 | Why did they need him for this job ? |
| 13 | Do they do them for free ? |
| 14 | I wonder how much they charge me for that |
| 15 | They swear black and blue , they charge you for that meter as well ! |
| 16 | they st they 'll , they charge you for that . |
| 17 | They punish you for any mistakes and give you no gifts at this level . |
| 18 | But Charlton joint manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ They slaughtered us for half an hour — but only half an hour . |
| 19 | Warren Mitchell went around to see him after a performance and was amused — following Burton 's initial reaction to the money — when he grumbled , ‘ You wo n't believe all they give me for this ? |
| 20 | But I know they blamed him for that . |
| 21 | They blamed themselves for this unfortunate marriage . |
| 22 | They get one for that , they |
| 23 | One day I came home from training and Mum asked , ‘ How much do they pay you for all this running ? ’ |
| 24 | And wha what did they pay you for this then ? |
| 25 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 26 | Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops . |
| 27 | They use it for official purposes and are likely to continue to do so for some considerable while . |
| 28 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 29 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 30 | to do they did mine for fifteen quid ! |