Example sentences of "[vb pp] it for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 4 | We have n't done it for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 6 | I 've done it for a number of smaller companies and charged a fortune for it |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 11 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 12 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 13 | I have nt seen it for a while and it was one of the more pleasing aspects to the Oldham game . |
| 14 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 15 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 16 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 17 | And we have a bicycle which he made in the year eighteen seventy , that was before he had started business on his own and he had erm made it for a young solicitor in Galashiels and I believe it was used in a race from Galashiels from Place in Galashiels to the . |
| 18 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 19 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | and erm she 's had it for a couple of days but we thought she was getting over it this morning . |
| 23 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 24 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 25 | He 's had it for a week . |
| 26 | You 've had it for a few years too . |
| 27 | I 've had it for a week . |
| 28 | He used to have a bottle of whisky a week but he do n't have any now he ai n't had it for a long time has he ? |
| 29 | No , he 's had it for a long time . |
| 30 | And I said is my caravan being cleaned weekly as people go out if they 've got it for a fortnight fortnightly . |