Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ouch , I thought , that really hurt , and I clenched it tight for a moment to stop the pain , before looking to see the damage . |
| 2 | Robinson regarded it cautiously for a moment , then shook it , feeling the power in the other man 's grip . |
| 3 | ‘ That may appeal to you , but there 's no way I would consider it even for a moment . ’ |
| 4 | Now I find if you put it aside for an hour or two and do something else you can already come to it fresh . |
| 5 | Yeah , , so erm , I 've got to get some medicine for all of us in a minute , put the prescription in , but erm , you know , she 's had it really for a week like , even though she was treated for thrush |
| 6 | ‘ I used to visit it everyday and it 's just so hard to know I wo n't see it again for a while . |
| 7 | ‘ Will you take the dog back with you or shall I keep it here for a while ? ’ |
| 8 | Cos the we er did get people contacting the office to say I 've got a lump sum , I 'd like to put it somewhere for a couple of years , and er we always wondered why they 're thinking of a couple of years . |
| 9 | Marty McCann breathed a sigh of relief as he watched his intended back pass rebound off the post for the keeper to scramble it away for a corner . |
| 10 | Someone must have brought it here for a purpose , but I must admit it looks abandoned . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've concreted up the mouth of the cave and the gap in the rocks which it burst through because I wanted to hold it there for a bit longer . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ Keep it here for a while . |
| 13 | He saw it only for a second . |
| 14 | I wo n't mention it again for a while . ’ |
| 15 | I could tell he was keen from the fact that he did n't mention it again for a couple of years . |
| 16 | He put an arm around her shoulders and kept it there for a moment . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , there 's the holes where it was unscrewed before they brought it here for an altar . |
| 18 | Entrenched competitors can make it hard for a supplier to win new orders . |
| 19 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |
| 20 | We noticed that they touched each other all evening , shoulder to shoulder , knee to knee , nothing obvious , although I did see O raise Boy 's hand to his lips once , and later I saw Boy rest his head on O 's knees , just lay it there for a moment like a dog . |
| 21 | ‘ I bought it just for a laugh . ’ |
| 22 | He had lost face , he had lost honour , yet now he flirted with the thought of murder , which was beyond all honour , and he did it solely for a woman . |
| 23 | I 'm only gon na put it there for a couple of minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ Then knock the lid down so that the rough edges are holding the lid in place , so to speak , and leave it again for a bit . |
| 25 | Leave it there for a couple of days . |
| 26 | So he , he thought he 'd do an experiment , er he took a small piece of radium which he 'd extracted from several tons of pitchblende and he put this bit of radium on his forearm and , and put a bandage round to hold it in place and left it there for a week and said right I 'll see what happens . |
| 27 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 28 | Two people replied — a man who offered to take it away for a fiver and Mrs Morrison , who dropped in for a quick look and said she wanted something for her playroom . |
| 29 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 30 | It makes it 'ard for a girl to say no when she 's obligated . ’ |