Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got it for six months , te |
| 2 | No I tried it on smaller needles |
| 3 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 4 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 5 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
| 6 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 7 | I watched it for several minutes , and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and the rest were going up and down . |
| 8 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
| 9 | I mean , I did it for four months and then I could n't do any more , I just think I mean , I know Amanda and Claire were a lot younger then and I think it 's difficult when they are they 're younger . |
| 10 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 11 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |
| 12 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
| 13 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
| 14 | Like , I did it for three nights and I was wrecked ! ’ |
| 15 | I did it in ten days , but in 1867 Loving took three months to do it . |
| 16 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 17 | I had it in big letters — ‘ Father ’ Arrien ( the father in inverted commas ! ) will preach on the blasphemy of the Roman Mass on such and such an evening — and the priest of the town , he went up to the council and objected to this and said that Wylie 's a trouble maker . |
| 18 | The essential characteristics of this primacy which distinguished it from such primacies as that of Hamburg or Lyons were , first , that it was centred in a monastic community , and second , that its roots and its authorization went back ( as Anselm was persuaded ) to its original constitution in the seventh century . |
| 19 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 20 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 21 | Because you produced it on loose pages I could exhibit it month by month as you organised it . |
| 22 | She made it with thirty seconds to spare . |
| 23 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 24 | She found it within five minutes . |
| 25 | She filled it with sweet oils and bubbles , shrugged her clothes off , and got in . |
| 26 | Taking it out , she ripped it into tiny pieces then tossed the fragments into the bucket that still stood on the dresser like some awful avant-garde ornament . |
| 27 | It explained mathematically why the electron had spin 1/2 , that is , why it did n't look the same if you turned it through only one complete revolution , but did if you turned it through two revolutions . |
| 28 | She spent it on other things . |
| 29 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |
| 30 | The dealer was taken away for questioning , and the painting was confiscated by the Gemäldegalerie who kept it for six months , attempting to resolve the situation themselves . |