Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 4 | KIND-HEARTED Jimmy Savile has fixed it for a badly-burned Romanian boy to have surgery in Britain . |
| 5 | Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time . |
| 6 | Even though we 'd sold it for a ridiculously low . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Scorton does have a playing field , but this is administered by the Parish Council and no application has been made to use it for a finishing point . |
| 9 | Guido took a mouthful of his Cynar and seemed to savour it for a moment . |
| 10 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 11 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 12 | Yes I 'd like to see it for a day or two but not for a fortnight |
| 13 | Shah declined , but said he would be willing to help finance it for a fee . |
| 14 | Or it could be that they would be appropriate for the reception area in one of the factories , or we might give one to a distributor and say , here you are , this you know , put this in if you 've got the right sort of area and would like to use it for a bit , stick it in there . |
| 15 | I 've got to do it for a week have n't I ? |
| 16 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 17 | I 'd like to take it for a spin . |
| 18 | but I should like to examine it for a little longer . |
| 19 | No one had bothered to wind it for a long time ; the two hands were clasped together as if in prayer , pointing eternally upwards — either to heaven or to twelve o'clock . |
| 20 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 21 | I think I 'll stop using it for a bit . |
| 22 | But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off . |
| 23 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 24 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 26 | 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 . " |
| 27 | I 'm not doing any , I 'm , I 'm , all this bloody panicking about getting a flaming gas fire sorted out and getting a carpet done , I 'm not , not bothering , we 'll just have to rough it for a while . |
| 28 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 29 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 30 | The playing of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Peter Eötrös , who had given the work several times before this 1991 Prom performance , seems immensely confident and assured , all the complexities mastered ; and the recording quality is so good ( and the audience so quiet ) I would have taken it for a ‘ state-of-theart ’ studio job . |