Example sentences of "have [verb] it for a [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 9 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 12 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 13 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You 've had it for a few years too . |
| 16 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 20 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 21 | No one 's touched it for a long , long time . |