Sentence examples for took a contract from inspiring English sources

Next thing the Yankees knew, he took a contract for five years and $120 million from the Phillies rather than the Yankees' seven-year offer for $148 million.

In the end, it took a contract worth sixty million of Dolan's essentially inherited dollars twelve million a year for five years to persuade Phil to move East.

"I took a contract, as you do, for a totally different kind of book: the impulse was to do with money.

Knowing that playing time in North America would help his future NHL chances, Walker took a contract with the Youngstown Phantoms, a youth league team in Ohio, in addition to continuing his game time for HC Vitkovice.

In May, when he took a contract job managing a state Web site, he gave up combined state and federal subsidies that paid 93% of his $1,313-a-month Cobra premium.

He chuckled, adding, "Somebody'll take a contract out on him if he keeps on going like that".

Somehow it takes a contract like the one Rodriguez just signed to put $30 million and $40 million contracts for more ordinary players in perspective.

But in a subsequent conversation, the Mets learned it would take a contract of 10 to 12 years in length and a value of more than $200 million.

If that sounds far-fetched, papers filed last Thursday show that he tried to take a contract on a second person.

He did make headlines in April 2006, however, when he boasted that he had taken a contract away because the contractor had been critical of President Bush.

When I was quite young, my father lost his job because he objected to his firm taking a contract in apartheid South Africa.