Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 2 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 3 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 4 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 5 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 6 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 7 | There is nothing worse than being told ‘ Yes , we had a lovely book all about the fête we held for the coronation , but I have n't seen it for some years . |
| 8 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 9 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 10 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 11 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 12 | Over the years , he has used it for many successful d-i-y projects . |
| 13 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 14 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 15 | ‘ Well , we 've had it for several weeks now . ’ |
| 16 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 17 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 18 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 19 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 20 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 21 | The Romanians had played it for all it was worth . |
| 22 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 23 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |
| 24 | You 've set it for that rough track . ’ |
| 25 | However , suppose we have proved it for all finite P , Q , R. ( We will shortly do this . ) |
| 26 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 27 | not for that , I have n't heard it for that cos I 've heard |
| 28 | Anyway , he just liked the sound of it , and had n't he heard it for most of his life — until now . |
| 29 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 30 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |