Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [num] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 When Dad moved in with Eva , and Jamila and Changez moved into their flat , there were five places for me to stay : with Mum at Auntie Jean 's ; at our now empty house ; with Dad and Eva ; with Anwar and Jeeta ; or with Changez and Jamila .
2 There were two committees for which ballots were required , which were the National Examinations Board of Embalmers and the National Education Committee .
3 There were three reasons for their protest .
4 There 's one law for us all ! ’
5 They also feel there 's one rule for them and another for Redlands as far as planning is concerned .
6 Three lots there 's one lot for you , one lot for you , one lot for me .
7 It is the same with all new expressions : there is one colour for what the trainees need to understand ( what they will hear ) and another colour for what they will need to use ( what they will say ) .
8 There was one recruit for whom we all felt sorry .
9 But there was one thing for which it was not prepared — Lady Diana Spencer .
10 Lot forty seven is five postcards there 's the two , there they are twenty pounds for them twenty anywhere ?
11 Anyhow it 's four runs for who is now eight , and he 's made them both in four , but , his two fours , eight , when you get three fours , two fours I think and a three in his first innings of eleven .
12 No if it 's thirty seconds for you , it 's thirty seconds off somebody else colleague .
13 I think it 's fifty pounds for everything .
14 ‘ You see , ’ he said kindly , ‘ it is one thing for someone like yourself who has always had an easy life — up to now , that is — to speak glibly about suffering women , and think that there is an easy way out — ’
15 But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him .
16 I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one .
17 It was one thing for her to be rude about a fellow female , quite another for a man .
18 It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ?
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