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If Manning plays two games and winds up in traction in suburban hospital, those long-suffering fans will have exchanged their hard-earned cash for John Beck?

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2012

You will have exchanged an aristocracy for a plutocracy.

From Scaramouche by Sabatini, Rafael

If this continues, the two countries will have exchanged phrases.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart

During the whole of this time, from 493, when the conflict between Odoacer and Theodorick is terminated, they will have exchanged the local rule of the Arian Herule for that of the Arian Ostrogoth.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

In the end, 1 and 19, 2 and 20, 3 and 17, and 4 and 18 will have exchanged places.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest