Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 2 | While shooting in the beautiful Maldives last year , it cost me about £200 for a model , plus the various costs of transport and hotel . |
| 3 | To sum up : in a time of unprecedented expansion of world trade Britain , the nation of shopkeepers , paid itself higher wages for producing very little more , while putting up its prices much faster than its competitors . |
| 4 | Middlesex , who fined him around £750 for a foul-mouthed outburst earlier in the season , immediately dropped him for the game against Hampshire . |
| 5 | This , and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body , lent it much mystique for a time , ensuring that the pronouncements it occasionally issued on professional matters were received as though hewn on tablets of stone . |