Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 2 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 3 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 4 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 5 | And I 'm not working next year anyway cos I 've done it for two years on the run and I 'm not doing it next year . |
| 6 | So you see they were having a difference of opinion over that and he 's saying you should n't , you should 've left it all to me and she says I 've done it for last fifty year and , you know , all this . |
| 7 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 8 | Well it 's insured , I 've insured it for twelve |
| 9 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 10 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 11 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 12 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 13 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 14 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 15 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 16 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 17 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 18 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 19 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 20 | The passcode system 's a welcome addition and the joystick on the control panel which mimics your movement 's also a nice touch , but once you 've played it for five minutes you 'll have seen everything the game 's got to offer ! |
| 21 | If I go , If I could just to , to bring go , right back to a point you made much earlier coming off is exactly as you 've described it for most people |
| 22 | You 've set it for that rough track . ’ |
| 23 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 24 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 25 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 26 | We 've enjoyed this one , we 've had it for two weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , we 've had it for several weeks now . ’ |
| 28 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |
| 29 | But we have budgeted it for eighty five K at thirty six per cent and we achieved a hundred and three at thirty eight . |
| 30 | However , suppose we have proved it for all finite P , Q , R. ( We will shortly do this . ) |