Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've known me for yonks . ’ |
| 2 | In the beginning they demanded small change , but now they ask me for £2 or £3 every time they see me . |
| 3 | J , A , K , O , B. You 've got a cheque for me for £799 . ’ |
| 4 | The woman was in her early forties and she asked me for £5 straight away . |
| 5 | They asked me for £400,000 each . |
| 6 | If someone has an accident in a Caterham , they might not sue me for $10m because I do n't have that much . |
| 7 | He asked me for £100,000 to help him pay legal fees . |
| 8 | YOU recently mentioned con tricks well , I was waiting at Lime Street Station for my mother when a well-dressed man with a briefcase asked me for £1 . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I 've been told they will drop the charges against me for £15 , as it is not a serious offence . |
| 10 | The day that battered sundial he offered me for £1,650 finds its way into my garden is the day I wo n't need to work for a living . |
| 11 | He offers to sell it to me for £25 . |
| 12 | The idea of using frames in a word processor is , perhaps , a little novel , although Ami Professional uses them for graphics and tables . |
| 13 | Naturally enough , you can use them for graphics , but with a twist . |
| 14 | Streamside Research sells them for £2 ( available in red , green or black ) . |
| 15 | You can join them for £199 including flights , accommodation and club passes . |
| 16 | At first , they went to the bond markets , especially offshore ones , raising dollars or Swiss francs and swapping them for yen . |
| 17 | However , on the one occasion that I bought fretsaw blades from them for 3d a dozen , a penny cheaper than elsewhere , I found that they were very inferior , breaking almost immediately . |
| 18 | Bought them for fivepence ha'penny |
| 19 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 20 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 21 | Mr Kennedy said : ‘ We could get them for £4 million . |
| 22 | Bring your own binoculars or hire them for 80p at the reserve . |
| 23 | Mark Williams and John Austin from Pest Control Oxford have a competition running between them for sales up until the year end . |
| 24 | I set out my toys and teddy bears and put price tags on them for 25p and 50p . |
| 25 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |
| 26 | I have several now and I 'll be trying them for pike . |
| 27 | Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch . |
| 28 | A girl selling newspapers in the street until 10pm on a Friday and Saturday buys them for 17.5p and sells them for 22p ( 1990 figures ) . |
| 29 | The rogue took the ring to Brooks , a firm of pawnbrokers , and pledged it with them for £350 . |
| 30 | The Fat Slags can be yours for £10m , says editor Chris Donald . |