Example sentences of "had [verb] it for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 2 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 8 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 12 | 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 . |