Example sentences of "[verb] it for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the pen 's barrel is not cracked and the lever is capable of movement then it should be possible to repair it for less than twenty pounds . |
| 2 | If you imagine it for more than two or three minutes , you start crying . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you want to go swimming you can do it for less than £800 a day . |
| 4 | Ken 's last wish was that his coffin should be carried by six Athletico players but I could not find a single one of the bastards who would do it for less than fifty quid . |
| 5 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 6 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 7 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 8 | He had bought it for less than seventeen thousand and had spent five thousand on it to date , expecting to sell it for at least forty . |
| 9 | ‘ I shall keep it for ever and ever . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ Barry concluded , ‘ there 's no way to do it for less than six hundred dollars . ’ |
| 11 | You look at Lauren Hutton , who 's been doing it for more than 20 years . |
| 12 | When she failed to answer Michele suggested , ‘ Let's forget it for now and eat . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll leave it for now and stream Uncle Manfred a few times . ’ |
| 14 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
| 15 | Of those firms which did possess such a strategy , a quarter had not reviewed it for more than two years , making it only mildly effective . |
| 16 | It played for a little while , I did n't play it for long but it did play . |
| 17 | There appears to be no significant risk to women who take it for less than five years but the risk does increase slightly between five and ten years , and taking it for more than 15 years gives a higher risk still . |
| 18 | May we inhabit it for ever and ever … |
| 19 | If we 've nothing to add on this question , I suggest we shelve it for now and hear what Anthea Darnell has to say . ’ |