Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
| 2 | I say twelve , and I let it for less because I 'm soft-hearted . |
| 3 | put this program in and you swap it for this er map disk , then it comes up , you tell it where you are , where you going to and it works your route out |
| 4 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
| 5 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
| 6 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 7 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 8 | Yeah , they buy gas at eighteen P and they sell it for forty three P . |
| 9 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 10 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |