Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 2 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 4 | no you just use it for that and I 'm not going anywhere else |
| 5 | Yeah , you just do it for one bloody night do n't you ? |
| 6 | Well you still do it for three years and ! |
| 7 | It is so good that we now use it for all our drawing and image manipulation for the artwork you see in this section of the magazine . |
| 8 | If this is what they need now , this is what you give them , er , on the understanding that perhaps they only have it for fifteen or ten years , but in fifteen or ten years ' time , they might well be able to afford to extend it and pay more . |
| 9 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 10 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |