Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 6 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 7 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 8 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 9 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 10 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 11 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 14 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 17 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 20 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 21 | ‘ And when you change the formula you know you 've changed it for every single product . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Has anybody read it for the first time for this course ? |