Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time .
2 Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years .
3 Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier .
4 I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million .
5 I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one
6 But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months .
7 Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time .
8 He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ?
9 Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has .
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