Example sentences of "have [verb] it [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time . |
2 | It took her a week to make , that dress , she 'd made it specially for the dance at the police cadets ’ college , and then she 'd been so shy she 'd spent most of the evening in the Ladies . |
3 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
4 | Do n't put it away , you 'll have to leave it out for the week . |
5 | Someone must have brought it here for a purpose , but I must admit it looks abandoned . |
6 | But maybe the leaders , Brice Lalonde and Antoine Waechter , will have to fight it out for the leadership of a united ‘ green ’ party before a real alliance can be forged . |
7 | Well , you never know , you might have to study it then for the exams . |
8 | Its excellent PR and the enthusiasm of the press might simply have set it up for a great fall if the use of its powers had proved to be weak or ineffective . |
9 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
10 | ‘ I 've given it up for the moment , ’ he said . |
11 | There was er she said , Blue Peter , and they should have put it in because they 've got it in for the kids . |
12 | ‘ Because I 've had it around for a lot longer than I care to tell you . |
13 | We 've taken it over for a week or so . |
14 | Some exciting advice — relayed by Andrew from a knowing uncle in the City — had jacked it up for a time , before an even bigger hole was left gaping by the failure of that magical investment . |
15 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
16 | Yeah , , so erm , I 've got to get some medicine for all of us in a minute , put the prescription in , but erm , you know , she 's had it really for a week like , even though she was treated for thrush |