Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 2 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 3 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 4 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 5 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 6 | I had to use it for one of Andy |
| 7 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 8 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 9 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 10 | So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this . |
| 11 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 12 | Well it 's insured , I 've insured it for twelve |
| 13 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 14 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 15 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 16 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 17 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 18 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 19 | Most of the federally owned land in the area is run by BLM , which has apportioned it for extensive commercial mining and ranching as well as for recreational use . |
| 20 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 21 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 22 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 23 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 24 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 25 | It was commissioned by the Disney Corporation , who hope to sell it for sixty thousand dollars . |
| 26 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 27 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 28 | The passcode system 's a welcome addition and the joystick on the control panel which mimics your movement 's also a nice touch , but once you 've played it for five minutes you 'll have seen everything the game 's got to offer ! |
| 29 | If I go , If I could just to , to bring go , right back to a point you made much earlier coming off is exactly as you 've described it for most people |
| 30 | You 've set it for that rough track . ’ |