Example sentences of "have [verb] it for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 2 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 3 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 6 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 7 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 8 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 9 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 10 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 11 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 14 | I 've done it for seven years . |
| 15 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 16 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 17 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 18 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 19 | The paper owner , the local council , had bought it for eventual use as a road , but had no immediate use for it . |
| 20 | We 've enjoyed this one , we 've had it for two weeks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 23 | ‘ Well , we 've had it for several weeks now . ’ |
| 24 | Well and we 've used it for Well answer is yes but I 'm you know , it 's making sure you get the business . |
| 25 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 28 | Worldwide governments had blown it for different reasons . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Some towns and cities have had it for 20 years or more . |