Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Like tea — we have the same brand each week — but if I know it 's cheaper in one shop I go into that shop , just to get that one thing — like I got it for 1 //6; this week and it 's usually 1 //11; — I like to get the best , but cheaper . |
2 | ‘ It has emptied our account , but I got it for twelve hundred and fifty francs . |
3 | I got it for six months , te |
4 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
5 | I used to want to work at the violin , and I played it for two years . |
6 | ‘ They asked for an appointment , so I arranged it for this afternoon . |
7 | Well , I stuck it for two years . |
8 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
9 | I watched it for several minutes , and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and the rest were going up and down . |
10 | I wore it for one year and that |
11 | When I wore it for seven hours in wind-driven rain , the jacket only started absorbing water after the fourth hour . |
12 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |
13 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
14 | I mean , I did it for four months and then I could n't do any more , I just think I mean , I know Amanda and Claire were a lot younger then and I think it 's difficult when they are they 're younger . |
15 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |
16 | I did it for six months and reckon that at only 24 I did it pretty well . |
17 | ‘ I did it for eight years . |
18 | I did it for one and he did n't get in ! |
19 | Like , I did it for three nights and I was wrecked ! ’ |
20 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
21 | ‘ I mourned it for two whole days when it died . ’ |
22 | No , they 're not really , you got a stand by , you got it for eight fifty , and cos we 're students , instead of eight fifty , we got it for five . |
23 | Yeah but on the yeah but I mean if she sold it for thirty two she 'd still owe them nine thousand would n't she ? |
24 | Mm , well Ann and she got it for thirty two and a half ! |
25 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
26 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
27 | Did n't know you had it for four years . |
28 | We got it for four pound fifty . |
29 | No , they 're not really , you got a stand by , you got it for eight fifty , and cos we 're students , instead of eight fifty , we got it for five . |
30 | We got it for all the tournament . |