Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |
| 2 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
| 3 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 4 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 5 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
| 6 | Although major developments in the ecosystem were largely external to biogeography until the 1960s , Stoddart ( 1967b , p. 524 ) argued that the ecosystem concept has four main properties which commend it for geographical investigation . |
| 7 | oh , ca n't you swop it for another day ? |
| 8 | Then they want you to run it for two year , have a mobile home , and if you could prove it 's viable after two years , then there would be a reminder and we 'll consider giving you permission for a house , otherwise , everybody could just put up one tun poly tunnel in half an acre and get a house , could n't they ? |
| 9 | Er like when you go out and catch mackerel you use it for fresh bait then . |
| 10 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 11 | But if you send an estimate you more or less have to say what you 're moving as well because if there 's more than that and you do n't put down what you 're moving then you 're p stuck with the estimate really and in p practice that 's what usually happens , you give an estimate and then you do it for that price . |
| 12 | The only problem is that the first time you do it for each project if it 's a ne if it 's a an old project , then we are going to have to put something in the field which summarizes the total remit for the whole of the group to date . |
| 13 | You plan it for minimum trouble , minimum risk . |
| 14 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
| 15 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 16 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
| 17 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 18 | but that , as I say for England and France erm they closed it for some reason |
| 19 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 20 | Ya so that if the goes up to thirty thousand the reserve might be large enough to give it to sell it for that price . |
| 21 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 22 | When a central bank buys a surplus of foreign currency it exchanges it for domestic currency , here Deutschmarks . |
| 23 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |