Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 2 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 4 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 5 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 6 | I use it for a wide sleeve gathered in at the bottom and I have knitted the main part of the garment with a 2x1 welt . |
| 7 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 8 | I denied it for a long time because I was so determined to make this marriage work , but the reality was that we did n't really care for each other any more , or at least somewhere among all the battles our love had been well and truly buried . |
| 9 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 10 | Short of battering him on the head with a blunt instrument — the thought held immense appeal , and she savoured it for a long moment , before reluctantly putting it on hold — she could n't come up with any way out of the present situation . |
| 11 | Thus , if in a set of decimals to be compared , the longest one really is the smallest , it will attract such pupils when they are asked to pick out the smallest as well as those who select it for the correct reason . |
| 12 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 13 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 14 | We tried it for a whole year . |
| 15 | No matter how worthwhile a project seems we attack it for the hidden and sinister purposes behind it . |
| 16 | If the Government can do it for the Bosnians , why ca n't they do it for the homeless ? |
| 17 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe they buy it for the wrong reason ; they can get a lot of research they would otherwise not carry out . |
| 19 | ‘ Maybe they buy it for the wrong reason ; they can get a lot of research they would otherwise not carry out . |
| 20 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
| 21 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |
| 22 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |
| 23 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 24 | In Peart , the more authoritative case , the accused received a car from the victim when he had told him he wanted it for a certain journey . |
| 25 | I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time . |
| 26 | Please help us preserve it for the future generations . |