Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv prt] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was heavy for him , he was glad to set it down for a while . |
| 2 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 3 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 4 | Why did n't he take that with him and put it in for a minute , for god 's sake . |
| 5 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 6 | ‘ Because I 've had it around for a lot longer than I care to tell you . |
| 7 | But lines like ‘ It 's a bit hard , your Highness , I have n't had it off for a year ’ , when muttered by a grubby servant referring to his shoe , come just as easily from Tony Slattery as they ever did from Sid James . |
| 8 | But you can only use it up for a month and then you . |
| 9 | We may be able to put it off for a while , but make that decision , we have got to , some day or another . |
| 10 | There is nothing whatever to do about it , except , possibly , to put it down for a time . |
| 11 | I have been dishing it out for a number of years , and now it is my turn to take it . |
| 12 | Let's face it , all she 'd have to do would be to sit and let him sleep it off for a while , it was probably what the kid needed most , and he 'd never remember anything different . |
| 13 | and they grassed it over for a children 's pre pre playground , now they want to turn it back , and extend the car park . |
| 14 | The shortage of labour forced the landowners to change their methods of exploiting their estates , most obviously in the abandonment of direct cultivation of the demesne by the lord 's paid men in favour of leasing it out for a cash rent . |
| 15 | A few other pilots have flown Lindsey 's Corsair — Ray and Mark Hanna of the Old Flying Machine Company , Hoof Proudfoot , Chief Pilot for The Fighter Collection , who flew it out for a display in Ireland this year . |
| 16 | If the new job is different in any way , an employee can try it out for a trial period of up to four weeks . |
| 17 | If it 's something that needs doing every day , keep it up for a week . |
| 18 | Erm so he ju he was taking it over for a couple of weeks . |
| 19 | We took it over for a Sunday night , hiring it , promoting the gig ourselves , pushing out a lot of handbills . |
| 20 | It was the weekend I bought the Granada , I 'm sure it was when we went away first time I ever took it out for a run . |
| 21 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 22 | Savalas Clouting ( 17 ) , Shaun Tacey ( 18 ) and Laurence Hare ( 23 ) will be fighting it out for a place in the Witches reserve berths after graduating from last season 's double-winning junior side . |
| 23 | So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed . |
| 24 | Give it a chance to warm up , we need n't put it in for a bit . |
| 25 | We can put it off for a while , we can say I 'll leave it till I 'm older , I 'll leave it till some other time , I do n't want to make that decision now . |
| 26 | Inzamam-ul-Haq ducked into his first ball and took it around the shoulder , and while a helmet was being fetched , he tried to pull the next and merely splice it up for a return catch to Malcolm , who later disclosed that , being some way short of the top 100 fielders in the land , he could only murmur , ‘ Oh , my Lord , who 's going to take that catch ? ’ |
| 27 | Some exciting advice — relayed by Andrew from a knowing uncle in the City — had jacked it up for a time , before an even bigger hole was left gaping by the failure of that magical investment . |
| 28 | Leave it on for a year you 'll get a bill . |
| 29 | Anyway , if there 's no visa I 'm gon na live it up for a couple of days , then put me foot down and not take it off till I get to Gib . |
| 30 | We 've taken it over for a week or so . |