Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it for a [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 I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 " 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 .
9 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 .
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 After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental .
12 I could let you have it for a few months until you get sorted out . ’
13 The Bill was then printed with the Committee 's revisions , and considered by a Committee of the whole House on 13th July , who sent it for a Third Reading .
14 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 .
15 We tried it for a whole year .
16 Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too .
17 He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 .
18 He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil .
19 So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 I ca n't see myself doing it for a long time .
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