Example sentences of "[pers pn] [n mass] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When your editor asked what kind of tank I would set up if he gave me £250 for Christmas , it was , unfortunately , only a hypothetical question . |
| 2 | There is also the problem that performance testing is highly susceptible to personal distractions and even though the tests and conditions of testing can be standardized , the motivation of those taking them cannot. for example , in some of our own experiments we found that subjects like to accompany each testing session with music . |
| 3 | I didn't. for me ? |
| 4 | The hotel manager charged each of them £10 for three single rooms , totalling £30 . |
| 5 | He once claimed to me that he was able to open a beer bottle with his eye and that it would cost me $29 for the privilege of seeing the trick . |
| 6 | At home , if the washing machine blows up , M.V. Services in Thamesmead will charge you £23.44 for an hour of a washing machine engineer 's time . |
| 7 | Remember , these are your fish relying upon you 100% for maintaining their water quality and health , |
| 8 | And they used to charge , maybe lend you half a crown , not a pawnshop but your ordinary women , used to lend you half a crown and maybe charge you sixpence for it or something like that you see . |
| 9 | Here , I said , I think my mate 's mad but he says to offer you £1000 for your place without even seeing it . |
| 10 | Some people will charge you £600 for a guitar with £50-worth of materials in it . |
| 11 | Some people will charge you £600 for a guitar with £50-worth of materials in it . |
| 12 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 14 | If we fail to meet any of these timescales we will pay you £5.00 for every complete day your supply is interrupted . |
| 15 | ‘ They propose to pay you £30 for them . |
| 16 | It went ‘ the English , the English , the English are best , I do n't give you tuppence for all of the rest ’ . |
| 17 | I 'm not being greedy but if someone paid me £50,000 for a fight , I 'd be the happiest man in the world . |
| 18 | We flounder for a while . |
| 19 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |
| 20 | A coin dealer later offered me £100.00 for my find , which he described as ‘ a common type in a little better than F-grade . ’ |
| 21 | Whatever 's all them people for to , ooh ! |
| 22 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 23 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 24 | A HAIRDRESSER who asked a teenage employee to push her buttocks against a letterbox so he could fondle them through it was ordered to pay her £1,000 for sexual harassment yesterday . |
| 25 | The 22-year-old 's eighth professional outing brought her £8,250 for her one-shot win ahead of Laura Davies and Gillian Stewart . |
| 26 | Thomas Cromwell was offered £100 for his help in obtaining the post of justice in North Wales ; J. Lucas proposed to give him £10 for wine — literally a pourboire if appointed King 's Solicitor . |
| 27 | But she had no idea that the ‘ customer ’ who paid her £400 for five sachets of cocaine was Daily Mirror reporter Jill Turner — and that the transaction was being recorded on video . |
| 28 | When one of the clocks failed Aerospatiale charged him £1,200 for a replacement ! |
| 29 | Just five more places are needed and then all fifty youngsters can return to England.In the long term charities hope to set up their own orphanage near Moscow , to give the Russians the love and care they crave.But for the next year at least , the orphans can look forward to the best of British schooling . |
| 30 | A court in Melbourne , Australia , completed his misery by fining him £120 for drink-driving . |