Example sentences of "he [verb] it for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He played a diabolical second shot and he must have finished all of 20 yards from the hole , but he sank it for a 3 . |
| 2 | He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil . |
| 3 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 4 | Cross soon secured his place in the Palace line-up and he held it for a long time , but his partnership with Jack Little for three seasons was a much-admired feature of the Palace defence . |
| 5 | In Peart , the more authoritative case , the accused received a car from the victim when he had told him he wanted it for a certain journey . |