Example sentences of "have [verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 2 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 3 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 4 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 6 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | But I used it as little as I could , though if the wind stayed in the south-west I thought I 'd probably have to use it for the later part of today 's outing . |
| 9 | it finishes on the eighteen so I 'll have to book it for the previous Friday so Harry says oh that 's great it 'll be my birthday too . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Part of the LEATGS grant might for example , be delegated for schools to administer , but they would have to spend it for the specified purpose of in-service training . |
| 12 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 13 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 14 | Which is a bit different and I 'd like to see it , that 's just one of my things , but again when you 're in , going into retirement I think you 've got to think about this , I mean I went , nobody twisted my arm , I went into that situation and I 've enjoyed it for a great many years , but now I 'm thinking I 'd , before I , it 's too late I want to have a , a l a fling in autumn as it were . |
| 15 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 16 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 17 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 21 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 24 | You 've had it for a few years too . |
| 25 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 28 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 29 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |