Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] it for " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
2 | A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me . |
3 | A good abstract painting is an experiment I do n't have to conduct because someone has done it for me . |
4 | I 'd have ended up a patient if I 'd done it for much longer . |
5 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
6 | I 'd rigged it for her a while back in part payment for temporary accommodation after the house I 'd lived in in Southwark had accidentally been sort of totally damaged . |
7 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
8 | To the same guy that I 'd bought it for twe er for twenty off . |
9 | I had no idea why I had brought the knife and what I 'd used it for . |
10 | When I calmed down I realized I was defending an organization I refused to be in , though I had nothing good to say for the one I 'd left it for . |
11 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
12 | I said course you can I said I 'd had it for years like that . |
13 | cheaper than what I 'd had it for but I mean they always do something like that |
14 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
15 | I had felt it for my mother before my father left when she would intercept his post , putting certain violet-scented envelopes into the pocket of her dress and steaming them open in the kitchen after he had left for work . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | And I took it and slew them all : seven thousand warriors and old men , together with women and old women and maidens , for I had consecrated it for Ashtar-Chemosh . ’ |
18 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
19 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I had taken it for granted that you would n't want a boring old fart like me trailing after you round Siena . ’ |
22 | I 've wanted it for a very long time , and it will happen , I promise , but not now , not yet . ’ |
23 | Right there I 've checked it for you . |
24 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
25 | 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 |
26 | ‘ I 've saved it for years for my daughter to wear . ’ |
27 | I 've done it for seven years . |
28 | I mean I 've done it for love ! ’ |
29 | I 've done it for my grandchildren this year . |
30 | I 've done it for years , and if I may say it myself , I 'm quite good at it . |