Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 2 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 3 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 4 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 5 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 6 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 7 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 8 | Perhaps they would like to choose it for the next one . |
| 9 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
| 10 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 11 | But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off . |
| 12 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 13 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 15 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 16 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 17 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 18 | it finishes on the eighteen so I 'll have to book it for the previous Friday so Harry says oh that 's great it 'll be my birthday too . |
| 19 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 20 | Part of the LEATGS grant might for example , be delegated for schools to administer , but they would have to spend it for the specified purpose of in-service training . |
| 21 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 22 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 23 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 24 | For some years , it was used by the American Church , which offered to buy it for a substantial sum from the London diocese when its lease expired ; but the offer was refused and the church declared redundant . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want any of you others to do anything , even if you do mean it for the best . ’ |
| 26 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
| 27 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 28 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 29 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 30 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |