Example sentences of "[verb] it for three [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Would you watch it for three hours ? |
2 | Yeah , we 'll do it for three months |
3 | Christmas trees , and I have two small children that to try to sustain Christmas for three or four days is very difficult , to do it for three months is impossible ! |
4 | 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% . |
5 | Er I get it for three quid , three something like . |
6 | Do n't wash it for three days ! |
7 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
8 | ‘ You can have it for three nights for ninety then . ’ |
9 | He wanted five per cent , we settled it for three point seven five . |
10 | On days when wing inspection would come around and check our tech supplier for spare parts , we would load this trailer with all the illegal spare parts we were n't supposed to have , cos they , like the couple of it might call it for three starters and we had six , seven or eight . |
11 | She has been doing it for three years and expects to be working on it for at least another three . |
12 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
13 | Got a couple of new doctors coming in a new practice manager can you leave it for three months . |
14 | I studied for the UCLI in Home Machine Knitting and , on passing both parts of the exam , went on to teach it for three years . |
15 | Livingston was quoted as saying he was given the supplement drink by a friend and took it for three weeks before the Games , not knowing it contained the steroid. — PA |
16 | Like , I did it for three nights and I was wrecked ! ’ |
17 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
18 | Warriors still hunt the jaguar in ritualised fashion ; they must stalk it for three days and it may only be killed with a wooden spear . |
19 | Well you still do it for three years and ! |
20 | Admirable as such schemes seemed from St Petersburg , they looked very different on the ground : it was reported from one ‘ city ’ designated an administrative hub that no one had entered or left it for three months . |