Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 2 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 3 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 4 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 5 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 6 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 7 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 8 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 9 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 10 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 11 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 12 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |