Example sentences of "[v-ing] it for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 2 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 3 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 4 | Woman , the top that I 'm gon na buy for Romax and Jason eight ninety nine and she 's selling it for one fifty . |
| 5 | Lot number two Lot two is a Japanese ivory carving we 've got that showing for you for seventy five pounds at seventy five pounds , eighty , eighty five , ninety offered I 'm offered ninety pounds and I 'm selling it for ninety , ninety five , a hundred pounds and ten one twenty thirty a hundred and thirty for you sir , coming in at one thirty in the back row , one thirty and selling for a hundred and thirty pounds . |
| 6 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 7 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 9 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 10 | Remember , each of the above exercises is immediately preceded by taking a deep breath , creating tension , and holding it for five seconds , then exhaling while letting go the tension and saying the word ‘ relax ’ to yourself . |
| 11 | On average , says the study , buying a share at its initial offering and holding it for three years yielded a total return ( dividends plus capital growth ) of just 8% . |
| 12 | The Frenchman on pole made a poor getaway and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 13 | Prost on pole made a poor start and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 14 | The descant accompanying it for fifty years had been one of complaint . |
| 15 | And one was going to but it off them for two hundred and fifty thousand so my mate said , You make the offer at two hundred and fifty and you 'll help me , so I says , I 'm getting it for two hundred if I say , an eighteen hole golf course , and I 'll sell it back to them when they can afford to buy it back off me , right ? |
| 16 | We 're giving it for six months . |
| 17 | They have surrounded a garrison at Bati , to the east , and on 19 September they attacked Mile on the Assab road , closing it for 36 hours . |
| 18 | four week course , but he 's running it for two hours for two weeks . |
| 19 | ‘ Course he will , ’ Joe snapped , ‘ bin doin it for twenty year . |
| 20 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 21 | Tom 's been doing it for 18 years . |
| 22 | Keith goes on : ‘ We 've been doing it for three or four months now and the only problem was when somebody tripped running to the B stage , fell down and scraped their elbow ! ’ |
| 23 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
| 24 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 25 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 26 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
| 27 | Been doing it for twenty days now , and erm , |
| 28 | She 's been doing it for twenty days . |
| 29 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |